Can frequency diversity provide performance gains for WSNs at 2.4GHz for the fire hydrant to above ground channel

Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2009 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 545-548

  Liu, R ^a   Yan, W ^a   Wassell, I J ^a   Soga, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURES; DAMAGING EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; IEEE 802.15.4; LOW COSTS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; WIRED SENSORS; WIRELESS NODES; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

ANTENNAS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONDITION MONITORING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FADING (RADIO); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HYDRANTS; HYDRAULIC DRILLS; RADIO LINKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 76149128703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LAPC.2009.5352435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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