A uniform airdrop deployment method for large-scale wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 182-191

  Taniguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kitani, Tomoya ^b   Leibnitz, Kenji ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airdrop; Coverage; Deployment; Distributed control; Simulation; Uniform distribution; Wireless sensor network; WSN

Indexed keywords

PARACHUTES;

COVERAGE; DEPLOYMENT; DEPLOYMENT METHODS; DISTRIBUTED-CONTROL; LARGE-SCALE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; NEIGHBOURING NODES; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WSN;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 79960571630     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2011.040239     Document Type: Article

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