Author(s)

Sara Nouh¹, Nada Elgaml², Nora Ali², Ahmed Khattab², Ramez Daoud¹, Hassanein Amer¹

¹Electronics & Communications Engineering Department, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
²Electronics & Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have recently become one of the major research areas in the wireless communication field and are implemented in a variety of applications. One of these applications that will be tackled in this paper is monitoring electromagnetic (EM) pollution that is mostly caused by a variety of wireless devices that we use in our daily life. This paper presents a generic algorithm that uses a WSN to monitor EM hazardous emissions and reports variation caused by four violators. Additionally it calculates the network’s lifetime and simultaneously studies the effect of random parameters and their distributions on the network. Finally the different combinations of the random parameters and the altered distributions are compared together to achieve the combination that can prolong the network’s lifetime.

WSN, EM Pollution, Monitoring, Random Distribution

Nouh, S. , Elgaml, N. , Ali, N. , Khattab, A. , Daoud, R. and Amer, H. (2016) Generalized Electromagnetic Pollution Monitoring Using WSN. Wireless Sensor Network, 8, 85-92. doi: 10.4236/wsn.2016.86009.