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Ground Level Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: Experiments, Evaluation and Engineering Insight

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In this paper, we are interested in characterizing the link properties of a wireless sensor network with nodes deployed at ground level. Such a deployment is fairly common in practice, e.g., when monitoring the vehicular traffic on a road segment or the status of infrastructures such as bridges, tunnels or dams. However, the behavior of off-the-shelf wireless sensor nodes in these settings is not yet completely understood. Through a thorough experimentation campaign, we evaluated not only the impact of the ground proximity on the wireless links, but also the impact of some parameters such as the packet payload, the communication channel frequency and the topography of the deployment area. Our results show that a ground-level deployment has a significant negative impact on the link quality, while parameters such as the packet size produce unexpected consequences. This allows us to parameter classical theoretical models in order to fit a ground-level deployment scenario. Finally, based on the lessons learned in our field tests, we discuss some considerations that must be taken into account during the design of communication protocols and before the sensor deployment in order to improve network performance.
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hal-02290185 , version 1 (17-09-2019)

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Rodrigue Domga Komguem, Razvan Stanica, Maurice Tchuente, Fabrice Valois. Ground Level Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: Experiments, Evaluation and Engineering Insight. Sensors, 2019, 19 (15), pp.3358. ⟨10.3390/s19153358⟩. ⟨hal-02290185⟩
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