Poster: Ri-mac enhancements for interference resilience

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Abstract

In many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployments, the communication medium is shared with other interference sources, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and Microwave ovens. The performance of WSN Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols is known to be reduced under these conditions, including diminished packet delivery as collisions increase. The design of current MAC protocols, which cater for low energy and reliable packet delivery, perform poorly in interference conditions. This is due in part firstly, to the fragility of the sender/receiver rendezvous, and secondly, to the channel arbitration and collision recovery approaches being agnostic to the cause of packet loss. We analyse the operation of one particular MAC protocol, RI-MAC, and consider its behaviour under interference. Following this, three mechanisms are proposed to bolster interference resilience: Resilient Probes, Resilient Channel Arbitration and Resilient Data transmission. These mechanisms are designed around RI-MAC, however are broad enough to be applicable to most other WSN MAC protocols.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2016
EditorsKay Römer, Koen Langendoen, Thiemo Voigt, Thiemo Voigt
PublisherJunction Publishing
Pages283-284
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9780994988607
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2016 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 15 Feb 201617 Feb 2016

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
ISSN (Electronic)2562-2331

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period15/02/1617/02/16

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