Experimental evaluation of beacon scheduling mechanisms for multihop IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 226-231

  Villaverde, Berta Carballido ^a   De Paz Alberola, Rodolfo ^a   Rea, Susan ^a   Pesch, Dirk ^a  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Beacon scheduling; Evaluation; IEEE802.15.4; Multihop; OPNET

Indexed keywords

BEACON SCHEDULING; EVALUATION; IEEE 802.15.4; MULTIHOP; OPNET;

SCHEDULING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77957934082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2010.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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