Multi-frame Beacon Management for constructing interference-avoided LR-WPAN

  • Authors:
  • Kwang-il Hwang;Sang-Soo Yeo;Jong Hyuk Park

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Embedded System Engineering, University of Incheon, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-735, Korea.;Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon 302-318, Korea.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In spite of tremendous popularity in a variety of application fields, it is shown that the IEEE802.15.4 (LR-WPAN), which has limited resources, is more vulnerable to effects of several interferences operating on the same frequency bands. In this paper, we propose Multi-frame Beacon Management (MBM) MAC protocol for constructing interference-avoided LR-WPAN. By maintaining multi-frames on different channels dynamically, a coordinator and devices can cope well with several interference environments, during the steady state as well as association stage. The experimental results show that the MBM-MAC can improve interference avoidance ability without deterioration of energy consumption and delay.