Analysis on data collection with multiple mobile elements in wireless sensor networks

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  He, Liang ^a,b   Pan, Jianping ^a   Xu, Jingdong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

data collection latency; M G c queue; mobile elements; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; M/G/C QUEUE; MOBILE ELEMENTS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL NUMBER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; QUEUING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TRAVEL SPEED; WIRELESS SENSOR;

COMMUNICATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SENSOR NODES;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 84863142021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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