Feasibility of in-car wireless sensor networks: A statistical evaluation

2007 4th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-111

  Tsai, Hsin Mu ^a   Viriyasitavat, Wantanee ^a,c   Tonguz, Ozan K ^a   Saraydar, Cem ^b   Talty, Timothy ^b   Macdonald, Andrew ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; BASE STATIONS; BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); HYBRID SENSORS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; VEHICLE TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD-HOC COMMUNICATIONS; AVERAGE FADE DURATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; ENGINE COMPARTMENTS; PACKET DELAYS; PACKET RECEPTION RATES; RECEIVED POWER; SENSOR SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; WIRELESS SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 48049101725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2007.4292822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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