Sampling and classifying interference patterns in a wireless sensor network

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Boers, Nicholas M ^a   Nikolaidis, Ioanis ^b   Gburzynski, Pawel ^c  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Olsonet Communications Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Interference; Sampling; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; FEATURE SETS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LOMB PERIODOGRAM; PERIODOGRAMS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SAMPLE RATE; SPACE CONSTRAINTS; TREE STRUCTURES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; ELECTRON EMISSION; SAMPLING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAVE INTERFERENCE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84870720804     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2379799.2379801     Document Type: Article

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