Revisiting multi-channel communication to mitigate interference and link dynamics in wireless sensor networks
Paper i proceeding, 2012

Multichannel communication has been proposed as alternative to adaptive (single-channel) routing protocols for mitigating the impact of interference and link dynamics in wireless sensor networks. While several studies have advocated features of both techniques (not without running up against contradicting arguments) a comprehensive study that aligns these results is still lacking. This paper aims at filling this gap. We present an experimental test bed setup used to perform extensive measurements for both single-channel and multichannel communication. We first analyze single-channel and multichannel communication over a single-hop in terms of packet reception ratio, maximum burst loss, temporal correlation of losses, and loss correlations across channels. Results show that multichannel communication with channel hopping significantly reduces link burstiness and packet loss correlation. For multi-hop networks, multi-channel communication and adaptive routing show similar end-to-end reliability in dense topologies, while multichannel communication can outperform adaptive routing in sparse networks with bursty links.

Författare

A. Gonga

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Olaf Landsiedel

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Pablo Soldati

Huawei

Mikael Johansson

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2012, Hangzhou, 16-18 May 2012

186-193 6227740
978-076954707-7 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/DCOSS.2012.15

ISBN

978-076954707-7

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