Empirical evaluation of wireless underground-to-underground communication in wireless underground sensor networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5516 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 231-244

  Silva, Agnelo R ^a   Vuran, Mehmet C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION RATE; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF TRANSCEIVERS; SENSOR MOTES; SOIL SURFACES; TEMPORAL STABILITY; THEORETICAL RESULT; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WIRELESS SIGNALS;

CIVIL AVIATION; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOILS; SPACE OPTICS; WATER CONTENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 68749096356     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02085-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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