Decentralized Strategies for Monitoring Structures using Wireless Smart Sensor Networks
@inproceedings{Sim2009DecentralizedSF,
title={Decentralized Strategies for Monitoring Structures using Wireless Smart Sensor Networks},
author={Sung‐Han Sim and Billie F. Spencer},
year={2009},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59656310}
}Design considerations for developing WSSN applications are described herein, including network-wide flow and timing, fault-tolerant feature, and network topology to account for the decentralized data aggregation.
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