Power-aware system design of wireless sensor networks: Power estimation and power profiling strategies

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-613

  Haase, Jan ^a   Molina, Javier Moreno ^a   Dietrich, Dietmar ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Power estimation; power profiling; power aware systems; simulation; simulator; wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

POWER ESTIMATIONS; POWER PROFILING; POWER-AWARE SYSTEMS; SIMULATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DESIGN; SIMULATORS; SPACE RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 81255138975     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2166793     Document Type: Article

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