Routing and scheduling algorithms for wirelesshart networks: A survey

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 9703-9740

  Nobre, Marcelo ^a   Silva, Ivanovitch ^a   Guedes, Luiz Affonso ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Industrial wireless sensors networks; Mesh networks; Routing; Scheduling; WirelessHART

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MESH NETWORKING; NETWORK ROUTING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS SENSORS; ROUTING; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESSHART;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84928666082     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150509703     Document Type: Article

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