Performance repeatability of low power wireless sensor network protocols: a multi testbed study

  • Authors:
  • Taewoo Kwon;Emre Ertin;Anish Kumar Arora

  • Affiliations:
  • Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA;Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA;Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Predicting and bounding performance is a fundamental requirement in wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol development. To support a fast development cycle principled methods are required for experimentation with wireless protocols in testbed environments that can provide repeatable performance guarantees in the target environment. In this paper we propose a method to achieve performance repeatability across test and target environments, that relies on analytical prediction of expected protocol performance as a function of RF environment parameters and forwarding protocol. For the validation of the proposed method, we present analytical, simulation, and experimental results for one-dimensional networks deployed in indoor and outdoor propagation environments, and for two-dimensional networks on four major indoor WSN testbeds to validate the performance of the proposed method on achieving repeatable protocol behavior across diverse set of RF environments.