A location-aware multicasting protocol for Bluetooth Location Networks

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3161-3177

  Chang, Chih Yung ^a   Shih, Kuei Ping ^a   Hsu, Chung Hsien ^b   Chen, Hung Chang ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Bluetooth Location Networks; Location aware; Multicast; Path sharing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE DEVICES; MULTICASTING; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SERVERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BLUETOOTH LOCATION NETWORKS; LOCATION AWARE; PATH SHARING; SERVICE SERVER;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 34248143019     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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