Channel model and analysis for wireless underground sensor networks in soil medium

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet C. Vuran ◽  
Ian F. Akyildiz
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Soil Medium ◽  
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

scholarly journals Energy-Spectral Efficiency Optimization in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks Using Salp Swarm Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mariem Ayedi ◽  
Esraa Eldesouky ◽  
Jabeen Nazeer
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Spectral Efficiency ◽  
Packet Transmission ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Green Communication ◽  
Soil Medium ◽  
Salp Swarm Algorithm ◽  
Battery Capacity ◽  
Swarm Algorithm ◽  
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Achieving high data rate transmission is critically constrained by green communication metrics in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). A unified metric ensuring a successful compromise between the energy efficiency (EE) and the spectral efficiency (SE) is, then, an interesting design criterion in such systems. In this paper, we focus on EE-SE tradeoff optimization in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) where signals penetrate through a challenging lossy soil medium and nodes’ power supply is critical. Underground sensor nodes gather and send sensory information to underground relay nodes which amplify-and-retransmit received signals to an aboveground sink node. We propose to optimize source and relay powers used for each packet transmission using an efficient recent metaheuristic optimization algorithm called Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA). Thus, the optimal source and relay transmission powers, which maximize the EE-SE tradeoff under the maximum allowed transmission powers and the initial battery capacity constraints, are obtained. Further, we study the case where the underground medium properties are dynamic and change from a transmission to another. For this situation, we propose to allocate different maximum node powers according to the soil medium conditions. Simulation results prove that our proposed optimization achieves a significant EE-SE tradeoff and prolongs the network’s lifetime compared to the fixed allocation node power scheme. Additional gain is obtained in case of dynamic medium conditions.

scholarly journals Wireless Underground Sensor Networks: Channel Modeling and Operation Analysis in the Terahertz Band

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Alper Akkaş ◽  
Radosveta Sokullu
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Channel Modeling ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) are networks of sensor nodes operating below the ground surface, which are envisioned to provide real-time monitoring capabilities in the complex underground environments consisting of soil, water, oil, and other components. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities and limitations of using WUSNs for increasing the efficiency of oil recovery processes. To realize this, millimeter scale sensor nodes with antennas at the same scale should be deployed in the confined oil reservoir fractures. This necessitates the sensor nodes to be operating in the terahertz (THz) range and the main challenge is establishing reliable underground communication despite the hostile environment which does not allow the direct use of most existing wireless solutions. The major problems are extremely high path loss, small communication range, and high dynamics of the electromagnetic (EM) waves when penetrating through soil, sand, and water and through the very specific crude oil medium. The objective of the paper is to address these issues in order to propose a novel communication channel model considering the propagation properties of terahertz EM waves in the complex underground environment of the oil reservoirs and to investigate the feasible transmission distances between nodes for different water-crude-oil-soil-CO2compositions.

scholarly journals An Attenuation Model of Node Signals in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4642
Author(s):  
Meng Han ◽  
Zenglin Zhang ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Jiayun Zheng ◽  
Wenting Han
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Burial Depth ◽  
Horizontal Distance ◽  
Signal Attenuation ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Soil Medium ◽  
Attenuation Model ◽  
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSN) consist of sensor nodes that are operated in the soil medium. To evaluate the signal attenuation law of WUSN nodes, in this study, a WUSN node signal transmission test platform was built in the laboratory. The signal intensity data of WUSN nodes under different experimental conditions were obtained by orthogonal test. The WUSN node signal attenuation model was established. The test results show that the transmission of WUSN node signals in the soil medium is seriously affected by soil moisture content, node burial depth, soil compactness, and horizontal distance between nodes. The R2 of the models was between 0.790 and 0.893, and the RMSE of the models was between 2.489 and 4.192 dbm. Then, the WUSN node signal attenuation model involving the four factors was established. The R2 and RMSE of the model were, respectively, 0.822 and 4.87 dbm. The WUSN node signal attenuation model established in this paper can facilitate WUSN node deployment.

scholarly journals Energy Consumption Analysis of Beamforming and Cooperative Schemes for Aircraft Wireless Sensor Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4374
Author(s):  
Seung-Hwan Kim ◽  
Jae-Woo Kim ◽  
Dong-Seong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Amplify And Forward ◽  
Decode And Forward ◽  
International Telecommunication Union ◽  
Better Than

In this paper, the eight schemes for aircraft wireless sensor networks are investigated, which are single-hop array beamforming schemes (including analog beamforming (ABF), and digital beamforming (DBF)), non-cooperative schemes (including single-hop and multi-hop schemes), cooperative schemes (including amplify and forward (AF), decode and forward (DF)), and incremental cooperative schemes (incremental decode and forward (IDF), and incremental amplify and forward (IAF)). To set up the aircraft wireless communication environment, we design the aircraft channel model by referring to the experimental parameters of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union)-R M.2283, which is composed of path loss, shadowing fading, and multi-path fading channel responses. To evaluate the performance, the conditions energy consumption and throughput analysis are performed. Through simulation results, the incremental cooperative scheme outperformed by 66.8% better at spectral efficiency 2 than the DBF scheme in terms of the energy consumption metric. Whereas, in terms of throughput metric, overall SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) ranged from −20 to 30 dB the beamforming scheme had the best performance in which the beamforming scheme at SNR 0 dB achieved 85.4% better than the multi-hop scheme. Finally, in terms of normalized throughput metric in low SNR range between −20 and 1 dB the ABF scheme had the best performance over the others in which the ABF at SNR 0 dB achieved 75.4% better than the multi-hop scheme. Whereas, in high SNR range between 2 and 30 dB the IDF scheme had the best performance in which the IDF at SNR 10 dB achieved 62.2% better than the multi-hop scheme.

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