Reliability through frequency diversity: Why channel hopping makes sense

PE-WASUN'09 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad-Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 116-123

  Watteyne, Thomas ^a   Mehta, Ankur ^a   Pister, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel hopping; Experimental results; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HOPPING; COMMUNICATION LINKS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS; END-TO-END COMMUNICATION; EXPECTED TRANSMISSION COUNTS; EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE; FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; NETWORK EFFICIENCY; NETWORK STABILITY; REAL-WORLD; SELECTIVE CHANNELS; SINGLE CHANNELS; WIRELESS LINK;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 74049085833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1641876.1641898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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