Effective location management of mobile actors in wireless sensor and actor networks

Journal of Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Aslam, Nauman ^a   Phillips, William ^a   Robertson, William ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Energy efficiency; Mobile actors; Network lifetime; Wireless sensor actor networks

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LOCATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

CLUSTERING; ENERGY EFFICIENT TOPOLOGIES; HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS; MOBILE ACTORS; NETWORK LIFETIME; RESOURCE CONSTRAINED NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR-ACTOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78651529701     PISSN: 17962056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jnw.4.1.1-8     Document Type: Article

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