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{{HTDB paper
| authors = Yasamin Mostofi, Timothy H. Chung, Richard M. Murray, Joel W. Burdick

| title = Communication and Sensing Trade-Offs in Decentralized Mobile Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Approach
| source = 2005  International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
| year = 2005
| type = Conference Paper
| funding = NSF ITR, NSF SENSOR
| url = http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/preprints/
| abstract = 
In this paper we characterize the impact of imperfect communication
on the performance of a decentralized mobile sensor network.
We first examine and demonstrate the trade-offs between communication
and sensing objectives, by determining the optimal sensor configurations
when introducing imperfect communication. We further illustrate the
performance degradation caused by non-ideal communication links in
a decentralized mobile sensor network. To address this, we propose a
decentralized motion-planning algorithm that considers communication
effects. The algorithm is a cross-layer design based on the proper interface
of physical and application layers. Simulation results will show the
performance improvement attained by utilizing this algorithm.
| flags = 
| tag = mcmb05-ipsn
| id = 2005a
}}