Latency-and-Coverage Aware Data Aggregation Scheduling for Multihop Battery-Free Wireless Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 1770 - 1784
• Main Authors: Cai, Zhipeng, Chen, Quan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Agglomeration; Algorithms; battery-free; Collision avoidance; Communication; Data aggregation; Data management; Heuristic algorithms; Internet of Things; latency-and-coverage aware; multiple channels; Network latency; Nodes; Schedules; Task analysis; Task scheduling; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks

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