EBDC: An energy-balanced data collection mechanism using a mobile data collector in WSNs

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5850-5871

  Chang, Chih Yung ^a   Lin, Chih Yu ^a   Kuo, Chin Hwa ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data collection; Energy balancing; Mobile sink; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861547991     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120505850     Document Type: Article

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