Cluster head selection using RF signal strength

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 334-338

  Fazackerley, Scott ^a   Paeth, Alan ^a   Lawrence, Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster head selection; Energy efficiency; Link length; RSSI; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER HEAD; CLUSTER HEAD SELECTION; DATA AGGREGATION; DATA TRANSMISSION; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY SAVING; FORM CLUSTERS; LINK DISTANCE; LINK LENGTH; LINK QUALITY; LOWER AVERAGE; NODE DENSITY; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; RF SIGNAL STRENGTH; RSSI; TRANSMISSION LINK;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LEACHING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70350238642     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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