Research Article

Soil Medium Electromagnetic Scattering Model for the Study of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Table 3

The physical parameters used for computing the wave number obtained by QCA.

SymbolQuantityValue and units

Volume fraction or
Relative permittivity in spheres (F m-1)
Background permittivity (F m-1)
Radius of spheres (m) (frequency up to )
(m) (frequency up to )