Channel characterization and link quality assessment of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio for factory environments

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-110

  Tang, Lei ^b   Wang, Kuang Ching ^a,b   Huang, Yong ^a,b   Gu, Fangming ^c  

^a IEEE

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel characteristics; Factory; IEEE 802.15.4; Link quality; Sensor network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PACKET LOSS; RELIABILITY THEORY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

LINK QUALITY; PACKET SUCCESS RATE; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 34249862901     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2007.898414     Document Type: Article

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