Servicing wireless sensor networks by mobile robots

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 147-154

  Li, Xu ^a   Lille, Inria ^a   Falcon, Rafael ^b   Nayak, Amiya ^b   Stojmenovic, Ivan ^b  

^a Nord Europe ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPSS); INTELLIGENT MOBILITY; ROBOT NETWORKS; ROBOT TASKS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84863800641     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6231291     Document Type: Article

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