The impact of fading and shadowing on the network performance of wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 211-223

  Liu, Bao Hua ^a   Otis, Brian P ^b   Challa, Subhash ^c   Axon, Paul ^a   Chou, Chun Tung ^d   Jha, Sanjay K ^d  

^a THALES   (France)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

CDMA; Fading; FDMA; MAC; MAI; Media Access Control; Multiple Access Interference; Shadowing; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; RADIO WAVES; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CDMA SYSTEM; CONTENTION-BASED; FADING; FADING EFFECT; MAC; MAI; MULTI CHANNEL; MULTIPLE-ACCESS-INTERFERENCE; SHADOWING; SHADOWING EFFECTS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 77949928183     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNet.2008.019006     Document Type: Article

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