Link-Quality Measurement and Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) are created by small hardware devices that possess the necessary functionalities to measure and exchange a variety of environmental data in their deployment setting. In this paper, we discuss the experiments in deploying a testbed as a first step towards creating a fu...

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Main Authors: Byoungjo Choi, Gwanggil Jeon, Abdellah Chehri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/3/3066
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Summary:Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) are created by small hardware devices that possess the necessary functionalities to measure and exchange a variety of environmental data in their deployment setting. In this paper, we discuss the experiments in deploying a testbed as a first step towards creating a fully functional heterogeneous wireless network-based underground monitoring system. The system is mainly composed of mobile and static ZigBee nodes, which are deployed on the underground mine galleries for measuring ambient temperature. In addition, we describe the measured results of link characteristics such as received signal strength, latency and throughput for different scenarios.
ISSN:1424-8220