The β-factor: Measuring wireless link burstiness

SenSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-41

  Srinivasan, Kannan ^a   Kazandjieva, Maria A ^a   Agarwal, Saatvik ^a   Levis, Philip ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

802.15.4; low power wireless networks; wireless measurement study; wireless protocol design

Indexed keywords

802.11B NETWORK; 802.15.4; BURSTINESS; INTERMEDIATE LINKS; LOW POWER WIRELESS; NETWORK DATA; PACKET FAILURE; PROTOCOL PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION COSTS; WIRELESS LINK; WIRELESS MEASUREMENT STUDIES; WIRELESS PROTOCOL DESIGNS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SENSORS; TESTBEDS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866507003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460412.1460416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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