On the design of heterogeneous sensor networks based on small world concepts

MSWiM'08: Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 309-314

  Guidoni, Daniel L ^a   Mini, Raquel A F ^b   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Data communication; Heterogeneous sensor networks; Small world

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY RESOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTERNET; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION; DATA NETWORKS; DATA TRANSMISSIONS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COSTS; HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS; LONG-RANGE LINKS; SINK NODES; SMALL WORLD; SMALL WORLD CONCEPTS; SMALL-WORLD MODELS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 63449090933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1454503.1454555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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