Performance analysis of wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2777-2788

  Liu, Wang ^a,b   Lu, Kejie ^c   Wang, Jianping ^b   Xing, Guoliang ^d   Huang, Liusheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobility; network lifetime; throughput capacity; wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION RATES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; MOBILE NODES; MOBILE SINKS; MOBILITY-ASSISTED DATA COLLECTIONS; NETWORK LIFETIME; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; STATIC SENSORS; STATIC WSN; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; THROUGHPUT CAPACITIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

CARRIER MOBILITY; DATA ACQUISITION; THROUGHPUT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84863967122     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2194747     Document Type: Article

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