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On Wireless Communication in Underground Mine System

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Wireless communication inside the mine is much challenging as compared to the communication above the surface. The signal gets highly attenuated due to numerous attenuation and path loss components which are generally absent above the surface. The traditional rooms and pillar or longwall techniques used for mining communication, introduce multipath. Again, choosing a suitable frequency becomes paramount as the ionic air present inside the mines affects signal propagation. So, a detailed study of all the existing works is essential for developing future wireless communication systems inside the mines. Numerous existing works focus on IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.15.4 technologies for communication inside the mines. However, no work giving the actual range obtained with these technologies inside the mine is present. The present work compiles, classifies, and compares the different existing wireless communication technologies used in an underground mine communication system. The work also undertakes a range study in an actual coal mine. The coverage range with IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.15.4 is ~83% and ~62% lesser, respectively, as compared to that on the surface.

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  1. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, IEM, Kolkata, 700091, India

    Ankita Ray Chowdhury

  2. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, 711103, West Bengal, India

    Ankita Pramanik

  3. Department of Mining Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, 711103, West Bengal, India

    Gopal Chandra Roy

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    Sumit Kundu

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

    U. Shripathi Acharya

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India

    Chanchal Kr. De

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Chowdhury, A.R., Pramanik, A., Roy, G.C. (2020). On Wireless Communication in Underground Mine System. In: Kundu, S., Acharya, U.S., De, C.K., Mukherjee, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing. ICCDC 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 602. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0829-5_16

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