Performance Evaluation of Wireless Transmissions in an Amazonian Climate

Author

Johnson, Thienne M. ; Margalho, Mauro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Amazonia Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

11-15 March 2007

Firstpage

2752

Lastpage

2756

Abstract

This paper presents the INFOCLIMA project, which aims to study wireless transmissions in the Brazilian Amazon. The simulation results are useful for our initial research, showing that data transmissions over a long range wireless link in Amazonian climate adversely affects the network performance. Therefore, environmental monitoring projects should pay special attention to the probability of data loss; since, for this application, delay and throughput do not much affect the monitoring application.

Keywords

environmental factors; geophysical techniques; performance evaluation; radio links; radiofrequency interference; radiowave propagation; Amazonian climate factor; Brazilian Amazon; INFOCLIMA project; data loss probability; data transmissions; environmental monitoring projects; long range wireless link; network performance; wireless transmissions; Acoustic sensors; Biosensors; Costs; Electromechanical sensors; Monitoring; Sea measurements; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.WCNC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Kowloon

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0658-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2007.511

Filename

4224756