Reinforcement learning–enabled efficient data gathering in underground wireless sensor networks

D Zhao, Z Zhou, S Wang, B Liu, W Gaaloul - Personal and Ubiquitous …, 2023 - Springer
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) consist of sensors that are buried in and
communicate through soil medium, while the channel quality of WUSNs is greatly impacted …

Reinforcement learning-enabled reliable wireless sensor networks in dynamic underground environments

H Guo, B Ben - MILCOM 2019-2019 IEEE Military …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless underground sensor networks play an important role in underground sensing such
as climate-smart agriculture and underground infrastructure monitoring. Existing works …

QoS-aware throughput maximization in wireless powered underground sensor networks

G Liu, Z Wang, T Jiang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the optimal resource allocation in the wireless powered underground sensor
network (WPUSN) for throughput maximization. The WPUSN is a new networking paradigm …

Enhanced meta-heuristic optimization of resource efficiency in multi-relay underground wireless sensor networks

M Ayedi - PeerJ Computer Science, 2023 - peerj.com
Achieving a balanced energy and spectral resource utilization is an interesting key design to
extend the lifetime of underground wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) where sensor nodes …

Throughput optimization in backscatter-assisted wireless-powered underground sensor networks for smart agriculture

K Lin, OLA Lopez, H Alves, D Chapman, N Metje… - Internet of Things, 2022 - Elsevier
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) using wirelessly-connected buried
sensors enable smart agriculture through real-time soil sensing, timely decision-making, and …

Exploiting relay nodes for maximizing wireless underground sensor network lifetime

NT Tam, DA Dung, TH Hung, HTT Binh, S Yu - Applied Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
A major challenge in wireless underground sensor networks is the signal attenuation
originated from multi-environment transmission between underground sensor nodes and the …

Multi-channel assessment policies for energy-efficient data transmission in wireless underground sensor networks

R Soundararajan, PM Stanislaus, SG Ramasamy… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUGSNs) transmit data collected from
underground objects such as water substances, oil substances, soil contents, and others. In …

Wireless underground sensor networks: A comprehensive survey and tutorial

D Wohwe Sambo, A Förster - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The Internet of Things has developed greatly over the past decade to cater to many diverse
applications across almost all fields of life. Many of these applications can either profit or …

Data collection in MI-assisted wireless powered underground sensor networks: Directions, recent advances, and challenges

G Liu - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) facilitate remote monitoring and control of
various underground environments, which are suffering from a significant reliability problem …

Environment aware connectivity for wireless underground sensor networks

X Dong, MC Vuran - 2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) consist of sensors that are buried in and
communicate through soil. The channel quality of WUSNs is strongly impacted by …