Connectivity maintenance in mobile wireless networks via constrained mobility

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 935-950

  Reich, Joshua ^a   Misra, Vishal ^b   Rubenstein, Dan ^b   Zussman, Gil ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Cooperative systems; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile robots; Network topology; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NETWORK; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; CONNECTIVITY MODEL; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW OVERHEAD; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK; NETWORK PARTITIONING; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NETWORK LAYERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84862277682     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120609     Document Type: Article

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