Using event detection latency to evaluate the coverage of a wireless sensor network

Computer Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 2699-2707

  Wang, You Chiun ^a   Cheng, Kai Yang ^a   Tseng, Yu Chee ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ad hoc network; Network coverage; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DETECTION LATENCY; NETWORK COVERAGE; PROBABILISTIC APPROACH;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34548814982     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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