F-LQE: a fuzzy link quality estimator for wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Nouha Baccour;Anis Koubâa;Habib Youssef;Maissa Ben Jamâa;Denis do Rosário;Mário Alves;Leandro B. Becker

  • Affiliations:
  • ReDCAD Research Unit, National school of Engineers of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia;CISTER Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal;Prince Research Unit, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia;ReDCAD Research Unit, National school of Engineers of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia;CISTER Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal;CISTER Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Portugal;Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • EWSN'10 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Radio Link Quality Estimation (LQE) is a fundamental building block for Wireless Sensor Networks, namely for a reliable deployment, resource management and routing. Existing LQEs (e.g. PRR, ETX, Four-bit, and LQI) are based on a single link property, thus leading to inaccurate estimation. In this paper, we propose F-LQE, that estimates link quality on the basis of four link quality properties: packet delivery, asymmetry, stability, and channel quality. Each of these properties is defined in linguistic terms, the natural language of Fuzzy Logic. The overall quality of the link is specified as a fuzzy rule whose evaluation returns the membership of the link in the fuzzy subset of good links. Values of the membership function are smoothed using EWMA filter to improve stability. An extensive experimental analysis shows that F-LQE outperforms existing estimators.