Applying the small world concepts in the design of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 953-955

  Guidoni, Daniel L ^a,b   Mini, Raquel A F ^c   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

heterogeneous sensor network; network topology; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

DATA-COMMUNICATION; END-POINTS; HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SINK NODES; SMALL WORLD CONCEPT; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS; SMALL WORLDS;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84864135574     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.052112.120417     Document Type: Article

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