Towards efficient wireless video sensor networks: A survey of existing node architectures and proposal for a flexi-WVSNP design

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-486

  Seema, Adolph ^a   Reisslein, Martin ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual radio; in network processing; middleware; video streaming; Zigbee

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; COMMUNICATION CONTROL; DUAL-RADIO; GENERAL PURPOSE ARCHITECTURES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IN-NETWORK PROCESSING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NODE ARCHITECTURES; SENSOR OPERATIONS; VIDEO CAPTURE; WIRELESS VIDEO; WIRELESS VIDEO SENSOR NETWORKS; ZIG-BEE;

COMMUNICATION; MIDDLEWARE; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYS; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 80053251267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.102910.00098     Document Type: Review

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