Frequency agility in IPv6-Based wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN)

  • Authors:
  • Riccardo Tomasi;Hussein Khaleel;Federico Penna;Claudio Pastrone;Roberto Garello;Maurizio Spirito

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy;Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy;Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy;Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WWIC'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a demonstrator of a multi-hop 6LoWPAN provided with frequency-agility extensions. A reference architecture is presented along with the basic components introduced to build a distributed spectrum sensing and interference resolution service in a multi-hop environment. Moreover, a frequency-agility management plane is proposed for the 6LoWPAN communication stack. The proposed solution is implemented in a small-scale network adopting TinyOS and an open-source implementation of 6LoWPAN protocol stack. The resulting demonstrator proves the capability of the proposed system to characterize the spectrum occupancy state in a multi-hop environment. In addition, it shows the ability of the network to reallocate to the best available channel in case a critical level of interference is detected on the current operating channel.