Title
Evaluation of medium access and a positioning system in wireless underground sensor networks
Abstract
Wireless Underground Networks (WUN) have many applications, such as border surveillance, agriculture monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring. Recent studies have shown that they are feasible and have deployment advantages over wired networks, but only a few WUN evaluations in multiple access scenarios have been done. This paper presents a simulation study on medium access for a WUN with 4 nodes buried, and one node aboveground. The simulations were carried out using the ns-3 simulator and they evaluate both Wi-Fi, and Lr-Wpan networks for dry and wet soils. We verified that for the same number of concurrent nodes, the use of the RTS/CTS mechanism has a much higher influence than the soil water content. Furthermore, a study about the feasibility of using Wi-Fi fingerprinting for positioning above the ground based on the buried infrastructure revealed promising results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WD.2016.7461482
2016 Wireless Days (WD)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless Underground Networks,Wi-Fi Positioning,Medium Access,Simulation
Fixed wireless,Radio resource management,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless network,Computer science,Computer network,Wi-Fi array,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Positioning system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2156-9711
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sérgio Conceição100.34
Cristiano G. Pendao274.23
Adriano Moreira323459.85
Manuel Ricardo44113.30