Title :
A Reliable and High-Bandwidth Multihop Wireless Sensor Network for Mine Tunnel Monitoring
Author :
Jiang, Hao ; Chen, Lijia ; Wu, Jing ; Chen, Siyue ; Leung, Henry
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Inf., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered here for remote monitoring of mine tunnels. Since mine transport and exploiting plane monitoring are the complex tasks that require video monitoring, a major challenge of remote mine tunnel monitoring is the multipath and diffraction effect due to unreliable channel and limited capacity. We propose here a braided cooperative reliable transport (BCRT) algorithm for reliable video transmission within mine tunnel. BCRT maintains one-hop reliability to ensure end-to-end reliability so that it is robust to path breaks. In addition, the BCRT-based WSN uses three consecutive forward neighbors to adjust the data rate to improve the sensing reliability. The proposed WSN is implemented in a real-life mine tunnel. And it is demonstrated to be able to enhance the reliability of the end-to-end monitoring of mine tunnels.
Keywords :
mining industry; tunnels; wireless sensor networks; braided cooperative reliable transport algorithm; high-bandwidth multihop wireless sensor network; mine transport; mine tunnel end-to-end monitoring; mine tunnel monitoring; multipath-and diffraction effect; remote mine tunnel monitoring; remote monitoring; video monitoring; video transmission; Channel capacity; Cities and towns; Diffraction; Railway safety; Remote monitoring; Spread spectrum communication; Temperature sensors; Topology; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks; Cooperative rate control; reliable transport; video transmission; wireless sensor network;
Journal_Title :
Sensors Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JSEN.2009.2022878
