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Underground structure monitoring with wireless sensor networks

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Yunhao LiuAuthors Info & Claims

IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks

Pages 69 - 78

https://doi.org/10.1145/1236360.1236370

Published: 25 April 2007 Publication History

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Environment monitoring in coal mines is an important application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that has commercial potential. We discuss the design of a Structure-Aware Self-Adaptive WSN system, SASA. By regulating the mesh sensor network deployment and formulating a collaborative mechanism based on a regular beacon strategy, SASA is able to rapidly detect structure variations caused by underground collapses. A prototype is deployed with 27 Mica2 motes. We present our implementation experiences as well as the experimental results. To better evaluate the scalability and reliability of SASA, we also conduct a large-scale trace-driven simulation based on real data collected from the experiments.

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2. Networks
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    1. Mobile networks
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IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks

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DOI:10.1145/1236360

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