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The increasing number of wireless LANs using the same spectrum allocation could induce multiple interferences and it also could force the active LANs to continuously retransmit data in order to solve this problem: this solution overloads the spectrum bands as well as collapses the LAN transmission capacity. This upcoming problem can be mitigated by using different techniques, being site shielding one of them. If radio systems could be safeguarded against radiation from transmitters out of the specific network, the frequency reuse is improved and, as a consequence, the number of WLANs sharing the same area may increase maintaining the required quality standards. The proposal of this paper is the use of bushes as a hurdle to attenuate signals from other networks and, so that, to defend the own wireless system from outer interferences. A measurement campaign has been performed in order to test this application of vegetal elements. This campaign was focused on determining the attenuation induced by several specimens of seven different vegetal species. Then, the relation between the induced attenuation and the interference from adjacent networks has been computed in terms of separation between networks. The network protection against outer unauthorized access could be also improved by means of the proposed technique.
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Cuiñas, I., Gómez, P., Sánchez, M.G., Alejos, A.V. (2009). Using Vegetation Barriers to Improving Wireless Network Isolation and Security. In: Filipe, J., Obaidat, M.S. (eds) e-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05197-5_31
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