BorderSense: Border patrol through advanced wireless sensor networks

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-477

  Sun, Zhi ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Vuran, Mehmet C ^c   Al Rodhaan, Mznah A ^b   Al Dhelaan, Abdullah M ^b   Akyildiz, Ian F ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Border patrol; Multimedia sensor networks; Underground sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BORDER PATROL; CAMERA SENSOR; COHERENT SYSTEM; FALSE ALARM RATE; HIGH-TECH DEVICES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH ISSUES; SENSOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM ACCURACY; UNATTENDED GROUND SENSORS; UNDERGROUND SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR;

MILITARY VEHICLES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78651354776     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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