Distributed sensor networks: a cellular nonlinear network perspective.

Martin Haenggi

doi:10.1142/s0129065703001686

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Distributed sensor networks: a cellular nonlinear network perspective.

Martin Haenggi

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Large-scale networks of integrated wireless sensors become increasingly tractable. Advances in hardware technology and engineering design have led to dramatic reductions in size, power consumption, and cost for digital circuitry, and wireless communications. Networking, self-organization, and distributed operation are crucial ingredients to harness the sensing, computing, and computational capabilities of the nodes into a complete system. This article shows that those networks can be considered as cellular nonlinear networks (CNNs), and that their analysis and design may greatly benefit from the rich theoretical results available for CNNs.

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Martin Haenggi. 2003. Distributed sensor networks: a cellular nonlinear network perspective.. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129065703001686

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