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Small-World Effects in Wireless Agent Sensor Networks

• Tags:
• laptops,
• peer,
• coverage,
• range

Overview Mobile users of laptops and personal digital assistants would typically like to have wireless network coverage over their areas of work. Commodity pricing of wireless systems such as IEEE 802.11b and related standards is making full coverage in many work environments quite common, usually employing base station antennae systems. It is still useful for nodes to be able to operate on a peer to peer basis even when base station coverage is not available. This is an available for many PDAs or laptops through short range technology such as infra red devices or more recently through short range wireless technologies such as Bluetooth. This paper describes some of the application scenarios in which mobile agents and sensor nets could benefit from small-world network approaches.

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