A Survey of Clustering Techniques in WSNs and Consideration of the Challenges of Applying Such to 5G IoT Scenarios

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1229-1249

  Xu, Lina ^a   Collier, Rem ^a   O'Hare, Gregory M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

5G; clustering; HetNets; Internet of Things (IoT); quality of service (QoS); quality of user experience (QoE); wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING; HET-NETS; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); USER EXPERIENCE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 85023611073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23274662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2726014     Document Type: Article

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