Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Performance repeatability of low power wireless sensor network protocols: a multi testbed study
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Radio link quality estimation in wireless sensor networks: A survey
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Taming uncertainties in real-time routing for wireless networked sensing and control
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Immune-Inspired self healing in wireless sensor networks
ICARIS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Immune Systems
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Many applications in wireless sensor networks require communication performance that is both consistent and high quality. Unfortunately, performance of current network protocols can vary significantly because of various interferences and environmental changes. Current protocols estimate link quality based on the reception of probe packets over a short time period. This method is neither efficient nor accurate enough to capture the dramatic variations of link quality. Therefore, we propose a link metric called competence that characterizes links over a longer period of time. We combine competence with current short term estimations in routing algorithm designs. To further improve network performance we have designed a distributed route maintenance framework based on feedback control solutions. In real system evaluations with 48 T-Motes, our overall solution improves end-to-end packet delivery ratio over existing solutions by up to 40%, while reducing energy consumption by up to 22%. Importantly, our solution also achieves more stable and better transient performance than current approaches.