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This paper wants to motivate the distributed algorithms community to study sensor networks. We discuss why sensor networks are distributed algorithms, and why they are not.
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Wattenhofer, R. (2006). Sensor Networks: Distributed Algorithms Reloaded – or Revolutions?. In: Flocchini, P., Gąsieniec, L. (eds) Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4056. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780823_3
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