Optimizing the number of clusters in multi-hop wireless sensor networks

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E91-B, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 318-321

  Kim, Namhoon ^a   Han, Soohee ^a   Kwon, Wook Hyun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Multi hop clustering; Optimization; The number of clusters; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

CLUSTER HEAD; HOP COUNT; MULTI-HOP CLUSTERING; MULTIHOP; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; OPTIMAL NUMBER; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 57049168087     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.1.318     Document Type: Article

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