The Triangle Metric: Fast link quality estimation for mobile wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Boano, Carlo Alberto ^a   Zúñiga, Marco Antonio ^b   Voigt, Thiemo ^c   Willig, Andreas ^d   Romer, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b DERI   (Ireland)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH VARIABILITY; LIMITED ENERGY RESOURCE; LINK QUALITY; LOW POWER; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; NETWORKING PROTOCOLS; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; ROBUST ESTIMATORS;

ENERGY RESOURCES; ESTIMATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77958463321     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2010.5560118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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