Characterization of location error in wireless sensor networks: Analysis and applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2634, Issue , 2003, Pages 593-608

  Slijepcevic, Sasha ^a   Megerian, Seapahn ^a   Potkonjak, Miodrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ERRORS; LOCATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSOR NODES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LOCATION DISCOVERY; LOCATION DISCOVERY ALGORITHM; LOCATION ERROR ANALYSIS; LOCATION INFORMATION; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 35248856916     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36978-3_40     Document Type: Article

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