Self-orienting wireless multimedia sensor networks for occlusion-free viewpoints

Computer Networks

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2558-2567

  Tezcan, Nurcan ^a   Wang, Wenye ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithm; Multimedia coverage; Multimedia sensor network; Occlusion; Self orientation; Visible field of view

Indexed keywords

GAIT ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTING DEVICES; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; FREE VIEWPOINT; MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT; MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE; MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORK; NEW ALGORITHM; OCCLUSION; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; SELF-CONFIGURABLE; SELF-ORIENTATION; SENSOR NODES; SENSOR ORIENTATION; VISIBLE FIELD OF VIEW; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS MULTI-MEDIA;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 49049102694     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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