Connectivity in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

SECON 2010 - 2010 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sun, Zhi ^a   Akyildiz, Ian F ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DEPTHS; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVITY PROBABILITY; CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; SENSOR DEVICE; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOIL COMPOSITION; THEORETICAL BOUNDS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESH NETWORKING; MOISTURE CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77955100331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2010.5508264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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