Use of aerial platforms for energy efficient medium access control in wireless sensor networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 500-512

  Mitchell, Paul Daniel ^a   Qiu, Jian ^a   Li, Hengguang ^a   Grace, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial platforms; Energy efficiency; Medium access control; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PLATFORM; AERIAL PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY EFFICIENT MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MULTIHOP RELAYING; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT; SINGLE HOP; SINK NODES; STATE OF THE ART; TOPOLOGY INFORMATION;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 74149093256     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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