Survey on the characterization and classification of wireless sensor network applications

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1860-1890

  Borges, Luis M ^a   Velez, Fernando J ^a   Lebres, Antonio S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

survey; taxonomy; Wireless sensor networks; WSN applications; WSN characterization parameters

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

APPLICATION CLASSIFICATIONS; APPLICATION-ORIENTED; FUTURE TRENDS; NEW APPLICATIONS; THREE GENERATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; WSN APPLICATIONS; WSN CHARACTERIZATION PARAMETERS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84906859714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2320073     Document Type: Article

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