Backpacking: Energy-efficient deployment of heterogeneous radios in multi-radio high-data-rate wireless sensor networks

IEEE Access

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1281-1306

  Alim Al Islam, A B M ^a   Hossain, Mohammad Sajjad ^b   Raghunathan, Vijay ^c   Hu, Y U Charlie ^c  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SENSOR NODES;

END TO END DELAY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HIGH NETWORK THROUGHPUT; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; OPTIMAL DENSITIES; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK TEST BEDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84923318681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2364234     Document Type: Review

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