Architecture and protocol design for a pervasive robot swarm communication networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1092-1106

  Li, Ming ^a   Harris, John ^a   Chen, Min ^b   Mao, Shiwen ^c   Xiao, Yang ^d   Read, Walter ^a   Prabhakaran, B ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Alabama   (United States)

^e The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

network architecture; robot swarm; wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SWARMS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; MESH ROUTERS; MOBILE USERS; MONITORING AND CONTROL; PERVASIVE ARCHITECTURE; PERVASIVE NETWORKING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PROTOCOL DESIGN; REMOTE SERVERS; ROBOT SWARM; ROBOT SWARMS; SCALABLE ALGORITHMS; SELF ORGANIZING; WIRELESS MESH;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; MESH NETWORKING; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; ROBOTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 80051732181     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: 15308677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.856     Document Type: Article

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