Objectives
The goal of this dissertation is to develop a new simulation model for ns-3 that allows simulation
of wireless underground networks for different frequencies, types of soils and depths of the nodes.
The ns-3 model has to be able to simulate communications between buried nodes and between
buried nodes and aboveground nodes. To achieve this goal the work was divided into some specific
objectives:
Study the major properties characterizing the soil and models;
Study some experiments and the existing radio propagation models for underground networks;
Study the ns-3 simulation environment, in particular the methodology that shall be used to
implement and add new models to the simulator;
Implement the propagation models in ns-3;
Simulate the same experimental scenarios found in literature and compare the obtained
results with the documented ones;
Conclude about the accuracy of the implemented wireless underground simulation
environment.