An empirical link-quality analysis for wireless sensor networks

2012 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC'12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 164-169

  Chehri, Abdellah ^a   Mouftah, Hussein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; HARDWARE DEVICES; IEEE 802.15.4; MEASURED DATA; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; UNDERGROUND MINE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

STANDARDS; ZIGBEE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84859910286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCNC.2012.6167403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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