Sensor networks with mobile access: Energy and capacity considerations

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2033-2044

  Mergen, Gökhan ^a,b   Zhao, Qing ^c   Tong, Lang ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Energy efficiency; Mobile access points (APs); Multiple access; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

MOBILE ACCESS POINTS (APS); MULTIACCESS CHANNELS; MULTIHOP AD HOC ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR NETWORK WITH MOBILE ACCESS (SENMA);

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 37849186492     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.884845     Document Type: Article

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