Summary: IEEE Wireless Communications · February 20092 1536-1284/09/$25.00 © 2009 IEEE
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN ROBOTIC NETWORKS
INTRODUCTION
The recent emergence of small embedded-sens-
ing devices (also known as motes) will funda-
mentally change the way we approach many
scientific problems, some of them that were
totally intractable in the past. One such family of
scientific problems collectively is known as envi-
ronmental monitoring, in which scientists must
collect environmental data (e.g., temperature,
humidity, etc.) over long temporal and spatial
scales [1]. Today, such experiments are infeasible

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences