Low power signal processing architectures for network microsensors
ISLPED '97 Proceedings of the 1997 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
PAMAS—power aware multi-access protocol with signalling for ad hoc networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Energy-Scalable Protocols for Battery-Operated MicroSensor Networks
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Special issue on signal processing systems design and implementation
PSFQ: a reliable transport protocol for wireless sensor networks
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Infrastructure tradeoffs for sensor networks
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Directed diffusion for wireless sensor networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Impact of Network Density on Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
A scalable approach for reliable downstream data delivery in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations
Radio interferometric geolocation
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Event-to-sink reliable transport in wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Adaptive Data Fusion for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Deployment analysis in underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks
WUWNet '06 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Underwater networks
Routing Correlated Data with Fusion Cost in Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
PIPENETa wireless sensor network for pipeline monitoring
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Real-Time Implementation of Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Neural Networks
ITNG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
Fault detection of wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
A Fault Tolerant Wired/Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Monitoring Pipeline Infrastructures
SENSORCOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Research on Efficient Coverage Problem of Node in Wireless Sensor Networks
ISECS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security - Volume 02
Long-range detection in acoustic sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Sensor placement for lifetime maximization in monitoring oil pipelines
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in the Oil, Gas and Resources Industries
AINA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Coverage-Aware sensor engagement in dense sensor networks
EUC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
IEEE Wireless Communications
Performance of adaptive MC-CDMA detectors in rapidly fading Rayleigh channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
On the deployment of wireless data back-haul networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
SWATS: Wireless sensor networks for steamflood and waterflood pipeline monitoring
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a target technology for oil and gas pipeline monitoring because they offer benefits of low cost, ease of deployment and ability to cater for data acquisition at great spatial and temporal scales. In order for WSN to achieve trademark performance in remote monitoring of pipelines, and surpass the performance of present-day traditional monitoring systems, certain design requirements must be met. In this paper, we identify vital design issues that must be considered to facilitate the employment of WSN for pipeline monitoring. We classify these design issues into five different categories namely; sensing modality, power efficiency, energy harvesting, network reliability and localization. In addition, we discuss the concept of cooperative communication for pipeline-monitoring sensor networks deployed in sub-sea environments. We also study the employment of sensor networks for monitoring underground pipelines. Our findings are based on extensive study of the recent literature and comprehensive survey of existing WSN technologies. The WSN design considerations presented in this paper are particularly prolific for pipeline monitoring scenarios, they can however be easily extended to other oil and gas infrastructures. For example; well-head and heat exchanger monitoring, oil platform process monitoring, monitoring of natural gas storage facilities and data collection on coastal infrastructures that could support oil and gas exploration.