Performance Management of IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network for Precision Agriculture

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5734-5747

  Kone, Cheick Tidjane ^a   Hafid, Abdelhakim ^b   Boushaba, Mustapha ^b  

^a Abidjan   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

analytical modeling; controlling; network performance; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTICAL MODELS; CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMIDITY CONTROL; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SENSOR NODES; STANDARDS;

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; COLLECTION FREQUENCY; CONTROLLING; DATA ACQUISITION AND TRANSMISSIONS; MONITORING AND CONTROL; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84939857391     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2442259     Document Type: Article

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