Int J Performability Eng ›› 2019, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (11): 3042-3051.doi: 10.23940/ijpe.19.11.p24.30423051

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Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Muhammad Sohail Sardara,b, Wan Xuefena,c,*, Yang Yib, Farzana Kausard, and Mohammad Wasim Akbare   

  1. aHebei IoT Monitoring Engineering Technology Research Center, North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang, 065201, China;
    bCollege of Information Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201600, China;
    cDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang, 065000, China;
    dInformation Security Department, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Dubai, 00000, U.A.E;
    ePra Health Sciences, Edinburgh, EH93GJ, UK
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  • Contact: * E-mail address: calmerd@ncist.edu.cn
  • About author:Muhammad Sohail Sardar received his B.E. degree from COMSATS University, Pakistan in 2014. After finishing his bachelor's degree, he worked for one year in the IT department of Wah Engineering College, Pakistan in 2015. Now, he is a master's student at Donghua University, China in the College of Information Engineering, and his major of study is communication engineering. His research interests include WSN, WUSN, and IoT.Wan Xue-fen received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yanshan University, China, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. In 2007, she became a lecturer at North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang, China. Since 2017, she has conducting research at the Hebei Engineering Technology Research Center for IoT Data Acquisition & Processing. Her research interests include IoT and LPWAN.Yang Yi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yanshan University, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2009. Since 2015, he has worked as an associated professor at Donghua University. His research interests include IoT, optical communication, and sensors.Farzana Kausar obtained a degree in biology in 1996 and completed her master's in IT with web technology in Glasgow in 1998. For the last 12 years, she has worked for the government sector in Dubai in the fields of ITIL framework implementation and IT governance within the Information Security and IT Department. Her research includes looking for and closing gaps within an organization by using global and industry standard frameworks to prevent any interrupted business through business practices and cyber-attacks.Mohammad Wasim Akbar received his BSc degree in pharmacy (1997) and MSc degree in information technology (2002) from Strathclyde University, Glasgow University, United Kingdom. Currently, he is working as a principal BI developer in the pharmaceutical industry. His research interests include programming languages, ubiquitous computing, and IoT.

Abstract: With the development of sensing networks and Internet of things, wireless sensor networks have been applied to different fields of our society. With the perceived sensing demands for soil, mining lanes, etc., wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) have developed rapidly recently. Compared to typical terrestrial wireless sensor networks, WUSNs have unique applications and features due to their wireless transmission characteristics and layout environments, especially WUSNs in soil. In this paper, we discuss the wireless propagation characteristics and engineering implementation methods of WUSNs in tunnels/tubes/pipelines/lanes and WUSNs in soil. The prospects for the future development of WUSN are discussed as well.

Key words: wireless underground sensor network, sensors and actuators, wireless propagation, multipath, transmission loss