Using mobile mules for collecting data from an isolated wireless sensor network

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 673-679

  Tseng, Yu Chee ^a   Lai, Wan Ting ^a   Huang, Chi Fu ^b   Wu, Fang Jing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Distributed storage; Mule; Protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; MULE; PROTOCOL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 78649577996     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2010.75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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