Reliable and fast hand-offs in low-power wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2620-2633

  Fotouhi, Hossein ^a   Alves, Mário ^a   Zamalloa, Marco Zúñiga ^b   Koubâa, Anis ^a,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PRINCE SULTAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

hand off; hand over; link characteristics; low power links; Mobility; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

HAND OFF; HAND-OVER; LINK CHARACTERISTICS; LOW-POWER LINKS; LOW-POWER WIRELESS;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 84906703862     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2307867     Document Type: Article

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