Multi-hop qualitative direction estimation in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Information Processing and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-16

  Li, Longzhuang ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Wei, Yuzhe ^a   Mao, Shanxian ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Qualitative direction estimation; Qualitative distance estimation; Sensor localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864081573     PISSN: 20934009     EISSN: 2233940X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/ijipm.vol3.issue1.1     Document Type: Article

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