A comparative simulation study of link quality estimators in wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-310

  Baccour, Nouha ^a,b   Koubâa, Anis ^b,c   Jamâa, Maissa Ben ^a   Youssef, Habib ^d   Zuniga, Marco ^e   Alves, Mário ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE SIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; HIGHER-LAYER PROTOCOLS; LAYER NETWORKS; LINK QUALITY; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYSTEM DESIGNERS; TREE ROUTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 76349100268     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2009.5366798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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