Movement-assisted connectivity restoration in wireless sensor and actor networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1366-1379

  Abbasi, Ameer A ^a   Younis, Mohamed ^b   Akkaya, Kemal ^c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^c Southern Illinois University Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity restoration; Controlled node mobility; Fault tolerance; Wireless sensor and actor networks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CONNECTIVITY RESTORATION; CONTROLLED NODE MOBILITY; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; RECOVERY ALGORITHMS; RECOVERY PROCESS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SPECIFIC TASKS; WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANCE; METAL RECOVERY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESTORATION; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 68849104727     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.246     Document Type: Article

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