The evolution of sink mobility management in wireless sensor networks: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 507-524

  Gu, Yu ^a   Ren, Fuji ^b   Ji, Yusheng ^c   Li, Jie ^d  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; mobility management; sink mobility; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SENSOR NODES; SURVEYS;

IMPROVING SYSTEMS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT SCHEME; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RESTRICTED MOBILITIES; SINK MOBILITY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84962193120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2388779     Document Type: Article

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