Mobile agent computing paradigm for building a flexible structural health monitoring sensor network

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 504-516

  Chen, Bo ^a   Liu, Wenjia ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL PROGRAM; COMPUTING PARADIGM; DATA SOURCE; DATA TRANSMISSION; DIAGNOSIS ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED COMPUTERS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; INTEGRATED WIRELESS SENSOR; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; LINUX- OPERATING SYSTEM; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; MULTI-MODALITY; NETWORK MIDDLEWARE; NUMERICAL LIBRARY; OPEN SOURCES; PASSIVE SENSING; RESEARCH GROUPS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DIAGNOSIS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; HEALTH; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE AGENTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DATA TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE; SENSOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955722196     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2010.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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