RadiaLE: A framework for designing and assessing link quality estimators in wireless sensor networks

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1165-1185

  Baccour, Nouha ^a,b   Koubâa, Anis ^b,c   Ben Jamâa, Maissa ^a   Do Rosário, Denis ^b,e   Youssef, Habib ^d   Alves, Mário ^b   Becker, Leandro B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Channel; Experimentation; Link quality estimation; Measurements; Performance; Testbed; Traffic pattern

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; EXPERIMENTATION; LINK QUALITY ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC PATTERN;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; SENSORS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79958092035     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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