Reliability and energy-efficiency in IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee sensor networks: An adaptive and cross-layer approach

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1508-1524

  Di Francesco, Mario ^a   Anastasi, Giuseppe ^b   Conti, Marco ^c   Das, Sajal K ^a   Neri, Vincenzo ^d  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptive data collection; cross layer; energy efficiency; IEEE 802.15.4; reliability; Sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MODULE; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER APPROACH; CROSS-LAYER FRAMEWORK; DATA COLLECTION; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; IEEE 802.15.4; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MAC LAYER; MULTI-HOP NETWORKING; NEAR-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; NETWORK LIFETIME; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPERATING CONDITION; PARAMETERS TUNING; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE-HOP; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; ZIG-BEE;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; RELIABILITY; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052060015     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2011.110902     Document Type: Article

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