Relay node placement for wireless sensor networks deployed in tunnels

2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob'2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 144-150

  Liu, Ruoshui ^a   Wassell, Ian J ^a   Soga, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA LATENCIES; DESIGN GOAL; FADING DISTRIBUTION; LINK PERFORMANCE; MINIMUM SET COVER PROBLEM; MULTIHOP; NEW STRATEGY; NODE PLACEMENT; PATH LOSS; PATH LOSS MODELS; PLACEMENT PROBLEMS; PROPAGATION MODELS; RELAY NODE; RELAY NODE PLACEMENT; SIMULATION RESULT; TUNNEL ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERGROUND TUNNELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); MOBILE COMPUTING; RADIO LINKS; RAILROAD TUNNELS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78650736868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIMOB.2010.5644984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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