A Connectivity-Aware Approximation Algorithm for Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 515-528

  Ma, Chaofan ^a,b   Liang, Wei ^a   Zheng, Meng ^a   Sharif, Hamid ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

approximation algorithm; geometric disc cover; network connectivity; relay node placement; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LOCAL SEARCH (OPTIMIZATION); TREES (MATHEMATICS); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

APPROXIMATION RATIOS; GEOMETRIC DISC COVER; LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHM; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK ENERGY CONSUMPTION; RELAY NODE PLACEMENT; TWO-TIERED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84961734102     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2456931     Document Type: Article

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