Octopus: Monitoring, visualization, and control of sensor networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1073-1091

  Jurdak, Raja ^a   Ruzzelli, Antonio G ^b   Barbirato, Alessio ^b   Boivineau, Samuel ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

control; debugging; monitoring; network; sensor; visualization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS; CONTROL TOOLS; DATA DELIVERY; DATA REPORTING; DEGREE OF COUPLING; DUTY CYCLES; EMPIRICAL TEST; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; NETWORK BEHAVIORS; NETWORK MONITORING; NETWORK STATE; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPEN-SOURCE; OVER THE AIRS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; REQUEST MESSAGES; SENSOR DATA; SLEEP MODE; SPECIALIZED TOOLS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; SHELLFISH; VISUALIZATION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 80051707811     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: 15308677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.826     Document Type: Article

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