Sensors 2013, 13(3), 3066-3076; doi:10.3390/s130303066
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Link-Quality Measurement and Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abdellah Chehri 1 email, Gwanggil Jeon 2,* email and Byoungjo Choi 2 email
1 School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada 2 Department of Embedded Systems Engineering, University of Incheon, 12-1 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-772, Korea
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 21 January 2013; in revised form: 20 February 2013 / Accepted: 21 February 2013 / Published: 4 March 2013
(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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Abstract: 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.
Keywords: link-quality; measurement; wireless sensor networks; ZigBee nodes

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Chehri, A.; Jeon, G.; Choi, B. Link-Quality Measurement and Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors 2013, 13, 3066-3076.

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Chehri A, Jeon G, Choi B. Link-Quality Measurement and Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors. 2013; 13(3):3066-3076.

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Chehri, Abdellah; Jeon, Gwanggil; Choi, Byoungjo. 2013. "Link-Quality Measurement and Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks." Sensors 13, no. 3: 3066-3076.

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