Coverage and latency aware actor placement mechanisms in WSANs

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 152-164

  Akkaya, Kemal ^a   Younis, Mohamed ^b  

^a Southern Illinois University at Carbondale   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Actors; Area coverage; Data latency; Energy awareness; Network connectivity; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION;

ACTOR; AREA COVERAGES; COVERAGE AWARE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA LATENCIES; ENERGY-AWARENESS; LATENCY-AWARE; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; SENSORS NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84893532228     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2008.018476     Document Type: Article

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