Low power free space optical communication in wireless sensor networks

12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 849-856

  Mathews, James ^a   Barnes, Matthew ^a   Arvind, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ELECTRONICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; COMMUNICATION LINKS; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER TRANSCEIVER; MAC PROTOCOL; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CIVIL AVIATION; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DESIGN; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 74549167901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2009.234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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