BeamStar: An edge-based approach to routing in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1284-1296

  Mao, Shiwen ^a,b   Hou, Y Thomas ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University

Author keywords

Directional antenna; Edge based control; Localization; Power control; Routing; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NETWORK ROUTING; POWER CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL;

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; EDGE BASED CONTROL; ENERGY CONSUMPTIONS; LOCALIZATIONS; ROUTINGS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34948889305     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.1071     Document Type: Article

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