Dynamic connectivity in wireless underground sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4334-4344

  Sun, Zhi ^a   Akyildiz, Ian F ^a   Hancke, Gerhard P ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dynamic connectivity; signal propagation in soil medium; wireless underground sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DEPTHS; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVITY PROBABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; SOIL COMPOSITION; SOIL MEDIUM;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84355161668     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.093011.110632     Document Type: Article

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