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Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks (BF-WSNs) have become increasingly useful for many applications and how to ensure timely information exchange between nodes in IP networks and those in BF-WSNs is indispensable. The 6LoWPAN protocol is usually used to deliver IPv6 packets over IEEE 802.15.4 based WSNs, and has resolved the size mismatching problem between IPv6 packets and 802.15.4 Medium Access...
Several communication protocols based on channel hopping have been proposed for wireless sensor networks. One prominent example is IEEE 802.15.4e, which relies on the concept of time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH). TSCH effectively mitigates poor channel conditions (caused, e.g., by fading) by means of channel changes according to a pre-defined hopping sequence. In order for nodes to participate in...
Asynchronous Radio Duty Cycling (ARDC) protocols can make embedded networked devices more energy efficient by keeping their radio off most of the time without a need for synchronization between devices. Some ARDC protocols can operate under 6LoWPAN adaptation layer in order to enable the vision of Internet-of-Things for battery operated devices. In this paper, we propose three different protocols...
The paper presents an indoor testbed evaluation of a multi-hop IEEE 802.15.4e Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) sensor network, operating in 2.4 GHz band. First goal of the evaluation is to assess the perspectives of TSCH, as a more reliable version of IEEE 802.15.4, for meter reading applications in a Smart Grid. Secondly, we compare the network performance for two medium access schemes: contention-based...
In this paper, we propose and model an enhanced IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for sensor nodes operating in multi-hop scenarios. Existing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, when adapted to multi-hop networks may not perform efficiently due to lack of knowledge about the instantaneous state of local gateway. We therefore ameliorate the channel access mechanism by introducing a new Active-Tx state, which aids in identifying the...
To ensure end-to-end reliable multicast or broadcast transmissions in IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor networks WSNs) is a challenging task since no retransmission and acknowledgment mechanisms are defined in such WSNs. In this paper, we propose three retransmission enabled multicast transmission schemes in order to achieve reliable packet transmissions in such networks. Different from the legacy...
Many embedded wireless systems can benefit from causal and totally ordered communication (CATOC) in order to achieve reliability and logical consistency at the application level. In this paper, we present a sequencer-based CATOC protocol designed to exploit the physical broadcast capability of wireless interfaces. Under ideal conditions, the propagation and delivery of an application message to the...
An important aspect of any communication technology is its medium access method, being responsible for sharing the medium among users. For delay-sensitive applications, such as industrial control systems, timely and reliable channel access is of essence. Hence, existing protocols like HART and TTEthernet use a time-triggered medium access approach. However, as the nature of industrial control systems...
Over the past decade, advances in electronics, computer science, and wireless technologies have brought Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) into many interesting applications. Particularly for the healthcare application, reliability is considered as a very important aspect for WBAN. Being the main focus of this paper, we aim at improving reliability by reducing the collision rate and increasing the...
Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) are found in many application domains that require low latency, robustness, and determinism. The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is not able to cope with the requirements of these applications. For this reason, the IEEE 802.15.4e amendment was introduced, which provides novel MAC-layer profiles that are optimized for a broad range of application domains, including...
Machine to machine (M2M) communications is one of the key underpinning technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) applications in 5G networks. The large scale of M2M devices imposes challenge on conventional medium access control protocols. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning (RL) based duty cycle control for dominant short-range technology IEEE 802.15.4 to provide high performance and...
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