On the modeling of solar-powered wireless sensor nodes

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-223

  Bader, Sebastian ^a   Ma, Xinyu ^a   Oelmann, Bengt ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Modeling; Sensor node lifetime; Simulation; Solar energy harvesting; System dimensioning; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011038781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22242708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jsan3030207     Document Type: Review

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