Sensing coverage for randomly distributed wireless sensor networks in shadowed environments

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 556-564

  Tsai, Yuh Ren ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Poisson distribution; Sensing coverage; Shadowed environment; Wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIO WAVES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SENSING COVERAGE; SHADOWED ENVIRONMENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 39549090213     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.905624     Document Type: Article

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