Performance analysis of an experimental wireless relay sensor network

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-480

  Zhang, Gu Chun ^a   Peng, Xiao Hong ^a   Gu, Xuan Ye ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative relaying; Diversity; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC RELAYS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COOPERATIVE RELAYING; DIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; NETWORKING APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RELAYING ALGORITHM;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 77449148228     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1501     Document Type: Article

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