When in-network processing meets time: Complexity and effects of joint optimization in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1488-1502

  Xiang, Qiao ^a   Zhang, Hongwei ^a   Xu, Jinhong ^b   Liu, Xiaohui ^a   Rittle, Loren J ^c  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

in network processing.; packet packing; real time; sensor network; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION QOS; DATA DELIVERY; IN-NETWORK PROCESSING; INP; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; NP-HARD; OFF-LINE ALGORITHM; ONLINE-PROTOCOLS; OPEN PROBLEMS; PACKET PACKING; PACKET SIZE; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; POLYNOMIAL TIME APPROXIMATION SCHEMES; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; RE-AGGREGATION; REAL-TIME; SENSORNET;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80051960878     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.81     Document Type: Article

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