The dark side of DEMMON: What is behind the scene in engineering large-scale wireless sensor networks

MSWiM'11 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-50

  Tennina, Stefano ^a   Gomes, Ricardo ^a   Alves, Mario ^a   Ciriello, Vincenzo ^b   Carrozza, Gabriella ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Giugliano in Campania   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large scale wireless sensor networks; Testbed; Toolset

Indexed keywords

BACK UP; INTEGRATED FASHION; LARGE-SCALE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; NETWORK PLANNING; PROTOCOL SIMULATION; REMOTE PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM TEST; TESTING TOOLS; TOOLSETS; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 83055178726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068897.2068908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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