{"title":"Path Loss Results for Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in a Long Grass Environment","authors":"Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, A. Aldosary","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633280","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a full set of radio frequency (RF) propagation measurements is provided for wireless sensor nodes deployed in a long grass environment. The measurements were made to evaluate signal attenuation in open space environments where long grasses are present. Empirical RF models are often derived from such measurements, which for the case of this paper has already been presented in previous work. In this paper, however, more details on model derivation are provided as well as the variations of received signal strength (RSS) for eight different distances. In addition, the empirical path loss model of the investigated environment is compared with models previously presented in other outdoor environments. These environments are sand terrain, concrete terrain, dense tree, sparse tree, and artificial turf. Comparing these different environments together shows major differences in the prediction of path loss values, path loss exponent (PLE), and variation elements. Furthermore, the empirical model is compared with popular theoretical models (i.e., free space path loss and two ray path loss). The comparison results show an inaccuracy of RSS values predicted by these theoretical models for WSN deployment in long grass environments.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124290110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. N. Jambli, Mohd Imran Bandan, K. S. Pillay, S. M. Suhaili
{"title":"An Analytical Study of LEACH Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network","authors":"M. N. Jambli, Mohd Imran Bandan, K. S. Pillay, S. M. Suhaili","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633291","url":null,"abstract":"The use of low power sensor nodes to collect useful sensing information effectively is critical for any wireless sensor network (WSN) application to last longer. To increase network lifetime, energy consumption is considered as one of an essential performance metric. Most of the current proposed routing protocols proposed to reduce the amount of energy consumed and to increase the network lifetime. The common pioneer hierarchical routing protocol for wsn such as Low Energy Adaptive Cluster Hierarchical Routing (LEACH) is also proposed to improve the energy efficiency of WSN. LEACH is a cluster based routing protocol in which sensor nodes are combined together to form separate clusters and every cluster has a leader node named cluster head (CH). In this paper, we have done the analytical study of LEACH protocol to identify to what extent LEACH protocol can perform in terms of average energy consumption and packet loss for different data rate.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122452918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of Channel Models for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)","authors":"Rajan Kadel, Nahina Islam","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633288","url":null,"abstract":"This paper performs comparison of several path loss channel models proposed for wireless body area network (WBAN) for various frequency bands. The comparison is performed in terms of received signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation using link budget calculation. The result shows that SNR estimation performed using some of the channel models are harmonized to each other; whereas those using other channel models differ significantly from each other.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133807230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micro-controller Based Fertilizer Dispenser Control System","authors":"A. I. Zainal Abidin, F. Fadzil, Yen Shin Peh","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633277","url":null,"abstract":"Manual fertilizer spreading process can be inefficient as the amount of fertilizer spread may be too little or too much. This study explored the potentials of innovating the fertilizer distribution on crops in the agriculture sector through implementation of technology. Providing the right amount of fertilizer at the right time can improve crop yields and food productivity. Hence, this study intends to provide an easy and efficient way for farmers to conduct fertilizer spreading process. The proposed system, iFeeder, allows users to conduct a quick soil analysis, observe the results and dispense fertilizer on crops via a mobile application. In short, this research potentially provides a significant value and great impact to the farmers and agricultural technology research fields with the attempt of adopting mobile application, sensor and microcontrollers in dispensing fertilizer on crops and monitoring soil condition in the agriculture sector.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114851501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Landolsi, A. Sagahyroon, M. Mirza, O. Aref, F. Maki, S. Maki
{"title":"Pollution Monitoring System using Position-Aware Drones with 802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks","authors":"T. Landolsi, A. Sagahyroon, M. Mirza, O. Aref, F. Maki, S. Maki","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633285","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient, real-time, and cost-effective pollution monitoring systems are becoming more and more important in nowadays urban environments. In this paper, we present the design of a pollution monitoring system consisting of an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, equipped with a single-board computer, a video camera, and several gas sensors such as carbon monoxide, ozone, and methane. The ground station of this system has a server that facilitates the communication with the drones, and calculates the air quality index (AQI) from the sensors data. For the purpose of lowering power consumption, the wireless ad-hoc network established between the drones is designed such that the closest one to the ground station relays its own sensed data and that of other far away drones. The base station keeps the logged pollution data, global positioning system (GPS) coordinates, time stamps, and video feeds in a database used to create real-time pollution maps. Stored historical data can be used for long-term trend analysis.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124821096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Development of Message Authentication Process for Telemedicine Application","authors":"C. Lim, VJ. Iipinge, K. Tan, Nguarije Hambira","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633289","url":null,"abstract":"The delivery of healthcare benefits remotely by utilizing high tech is called telemedicine. One specific use of telemedicine refers to the electronic communication channel between doctors and patients. Amongst others are the transfers, exchanges of medical images between heath care professions. Doctors and patients electronic message communication contain sensitive information and therefore the message transmission in telemedicine applications and systems must be secured. Two of the fundamental purposes of security are data integrity and message authentication, which are strongly associated with cryptography. Data integrity and ensuring that the receiver can verify that the data came from the sender can be achieved by Message Authentication Code. The objectives of this research are to ensure, investigate and highlight data integrity and message authentication as information security goals in telemedicine application, and to implement a secure messages authentication code for telemedicine application. We optimized SHA2 algorithm for MAC construction with implementation in Java. Using two similar MAC tags, the patient safely assumes the message came from the doctor (authentication) and that the message was not modified or altered during transmission (message integrity). We came to the conclusion that data integrity and message authentication are crucial components for doctor-patient message electronic communication.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"106 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131652546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Error Reduction Scheme in WBSNs Based on Channel Assessment","authors":"Arifa Anwar, D. Sridharan","doi":"10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWISE.2018.8633286","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) are an exclusive division of sensor networks used for proactive health monitoring. Errors that occur during the transmission of sensed data can corrupt the effectiveness of the network. The tighter resource constraints of WBSNs make the most common method of error control codes (ECC) an inappropriate solution. Hence, error reduction methods at the transceiver level helps in achieving the target of the network within the constraints. Simulation results show that decoding the data based on the threshold which is set depending on the channel assessment reduces the bit error rate (BER) to a considerable extent.","PeriodicalId":322481,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128054228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}