Implementation and application of a multi-radio wireless sensor networks testbed

Access Full Text

Implementation and application of a multi-radio wireless sensor networks testbed

For access to this article, please select a purchase option:

Buy article PDF
£12.50
(plus tax if applicable)
Add to cart
Buy Knowledge Pack
10 articles for £75.00
(plus taxes if applicable)
Add to cart

IET members benefit from discounts to all IET publications and free access to E&T Magazine. If you are an IET member, log in to your account and the discounts will automatically be applied.

Learn more about IET membership 

Recommend Title Publication to library

You must fill out fields marked with: *

Librarian details
Name:*
Email:*
Your details
Name:*
Email:*
Department:*
Why are you recommending this title?
Select reason:
 
 
 
 
 
IET Wireless Sensor Systems — Recommend this title to your library

Thank you

Your recommendation has been sent to your librarian.

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Published

The authors propose EasiTest, a multi-radio testbed for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Two types of sensor nodes, specifically, high-speed multi-radio node (EZ271) and low-speed single-radio node (EZ521) are developed. An administration platform is provided to monitor and control the testbed. EasiTest enjoys high flexibility, powerful processing capability and ease of expansion. EasiTest provides a powerful tool not only for the study and evaluation of large-scale, heterogeneous sensor networks, but also for quick prototyping of practical WSN applications. To demonstrate the capability of the testbed, the co-existence problem of IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 is studied. Guidelines are given on channel allocation and network parameter configuration to minimise the interference. In addition, to demonstrate the flexibility of the testbed, the authors evaluate robust opportunistic scheduling for ad hoc networks, a distributed opportunistic scheduling protocol, based on the testbed. The experimental results match with the simulation results very well.

Inspec keywords: Zigbee; channel allocation; scheduling; wireless LAN; protocols; interference suppression; wireless sensor networks; ad hoc networks

Other keywords: interference minimization; channel allocation; distributed opportunistic scheduling protocol; IEEE 802.11; WSN; high-speed multiradio node; EasiTest multiradio testbed; IEEE 802.15.4; low-speed single-radio node; ad hoc networks; sensor nodes; heterogeneous wireless sensor networks; multiradio wireless sensor network testbed

Subjects: Electromagnetic compatibility and interference; Wireless sensor networks; Protocols

References

    1. 1)
      • Sheu, J.P., Chang, C.J., Chung, C.Y.: `WSNTB: a testbed for heterogeneous wireless sensor network', Proc. Int. Conf. on Ubi-Media Computing, July 2008, Lanzhou, China, p. 338–343.
    2. 2)
      • Werner-Allen, G., Swieskowski, P., Welsh, M.: `MoteLab: a wireless sensor network testbed', Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 2005, Los Angeles, USA, p. 483–488.
    3. 3)
    4. 4)
      • http://www.xbow.com, accessed April 2010.
    5. 5)
      • Pollin, S., Tan, I., Hodge, B.: `Harmful coexistence between 802.15.4 and 802.11: a measurement-based study', Proc. Int. Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, May 2008, Singapore, p. 1–6.
    6. 6)
      • Handziski, V., Polastre, J., Hauer, J.H.: `Flexible hardware abstraction of the TI MSP430 microcontroller in TinyOS', Proc. Int. Conf. on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2004, New York, USA, p. 277–278.
    7. 7)
      • Lewis, G., Jeremy, E., Alberto, C.: `EmStar: a software environment for developing and deploying wireless sensor networks', Proc. Conf. USENIX Annual Technical Conf., June 2004, Boston, USA, p. 283–296.
    8. 8)
      • http://www.chipcon.com/files/CC2420_Data_Sheet_1_2.pdf, accessed April 2010.
    9. 9)
      • http://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/sensornets/, Omega and Motescope testbed at UC Berkeley, 802.15.4 wire-less sensor network, accessed August 2010.
    10. 10)
    11. 11)
      • http://www.tinyos.net, accessed August 2010.
    12. 12)
      • Ertin, E., Arora, A., Ramnath, R.: `Kansei: a testbed for sensing at scale', Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 2006, New York, USA, p. 399–406.
    13. 13)
      • Howitt, I., Gutierrez, J.A.: `IEEE 802.15.4 low rate – wireless personal area network coexistence issues', Proc. Int. Conf. on Wireless Communications and Networking, March 2003, New Orleans, USA, p. 1481–1486.
    14. 14)
      • Yoon, D.G., Shin, S.Y., Kwon, W.H., Park, H.S.: `Packet error rate analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 under IEEE 802.11b interferences', Proc. Vehicular Technology Conf., May 2006, Melbourne, Australia, p. 1186–1190.
    15. 15)
      • Polastre, J., Szewczyk, R., Culler, D.: `Telos: enabling ultra-low power wireless research', Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 2005, Los Angeles, USA, p. 48.
    16. 16)
      • Handziski, V., Köpke, A., Willig, A.: `TWIST: a scalable and reconfigurable testbed for wireless indoor experiments with sensor networks', Proc. Int. Workshop on Multihop Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality, May 2006, Florence, Italy, p. 63–70.
    17. 17)
      • Sun, Y., Li, V.O.K., Leung, K.C.: `Distributed opportunistic scheduling in multihop wireless ad hoc networks', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, May 2008, Beijing, China, p. 2238–2242.
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/iet-wss.2011.0013
Loading

Related content

content/journals/10.1049/iet-wss.2011.0013
pub_keyword,iet_inspecKeyword,pub_concept
6
6
Loading