Title :
Analysis of the Impact of the Physical Environment on a Wireless Sensor Network
Author :
Smolau, Siarhei ; Beaubrun, Ronald
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Univ. Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we elaborate a set of scenarios and experiments for evaluating the impact of the physical environment on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). More specifically, a WSN application is implemented for collecting received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements in two different environments. The main contributions are twofold: boxplot diagrams are used for graphical comparison of RSSI measurements, and statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA) is performed for evaluating the impact of the physical environment on a WSN. Results analysis shows the conditions where the impact of the physical environment on a WSN is significant.
Keywords :
statistical analysis; wireless sensor networks; ANOVA; RSSI; WSN; boxplot diagrams; physical environment; received signal strength indicator; statistical analysis of variance; wireless sensor network; Analysis of variance; Computers; Logic gates; Peer to peer computing; Receivers; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-232-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-3607
DOI :
10.1109/icc.2011.5962929
