Abstract
Rural environments have been struggling to get
connected due to various reasons, one of them being the fact that
the signal attenuation is too high in foliage, drastically affecting
range and power consumption. This study evaluates the effect of
foliage in the attenuation of 2.4 GHz signals, namely Bluetooth
and ZigBee. An alternate candidate signal, sound is also
analyzed in a similar environment. In order to further the
experiment, a simulation model using Omnet++ was created and
the alpha value, which marks the environmental constant was
noted. We have concluded from the study that the signal
attenuation for the 2.4 GHz signals are very high in foliage. The
high frequency sound signals also suffered drastic signal loss in
foliage, but the low frequencies penetrated quite well. Therefore,
high frequency signals are poor candidate carrier signals for
such environments.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 23 May 2017 |
| Event | 10th International Conference of Information Technology in Asia - Kuching, Malaysia Duration: 23 May 2017 → 24 May 2017 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th International Conference of Information Technology in Asia |
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| Abbreviated title | CITA 2017 |
| Country/Territory | Malaysia |
| City | Kuching |
| Period | 23/05/17 → 24/05/17 |