Strategies for improving performance of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee WSNs with path-constrained mobile sink(s)

Computer Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 743-757

  Vlajic, N ^a   Stevanovic, D ^a   Spanogiannopoulos, G ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; Sensor networks; Simulation; Sink mobility; ZigBee standard

Indexed keywords

IEEE 802.15.4; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; MOBILE SINKS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REAL-WORLD; RESIDUAL ENERGY; SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINK MOBILITY; SPACE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS; USER DATA; ZIG-BEE; ZIGBEE STANDARD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSORS; STANDARDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79952039741     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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