Assessment of the adaptive routing performance of a Wireless Sensor Network using smart antennas
- Author(s): Tian-Hong Loh 1 ; Ke Liu 2 ; Fei Qin 3 ; Haitao Liu 4
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Electromagnetic Technologies Group, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK;
2: Division of Electronics and Information Technology, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, People's Republic of China;
3: School of Electronic Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China;
4: Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Electromagnetic Technologies Group, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK;
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Volume 4, Issue 4,
December 2014,
p.
196 – 205
DOI: 10.1049/iet-wss.2014.0066 , Print ISSN 2043-6386, Online ISSN 2043-6394
Wireless sensor networks are built from nodes which have at least one sensor attached to them. To increase robustness and capacity, a signal from one node can be routed through many different nodes before it reaches its destination node (i.e. a base station). A smart antenna with a steerable beam has the potential, compared to a monopole, to increase the signal-to-noise ratio between nodes and hence provide more reliable communication paths. In this study, the data routing and link performance of a rhombus-shaped mesh network using four IEEE 802.15.4 compliant MICAz sensor nodes (motes) is assessed using both monopole and smart antennas. Both reflectionless and multipath-rich environments are used. It is shown that the electronically steerable parasitic array smart antenna offers a superior performance to a monopole antenna in both environments, while still consuming a similar amount of input power.
Inspec keywords: monopole antenna arrays; wireless sensor networks; adaptive antenna arrays; telecommunication network reliability; beam steering; wireless mesh networks; radio links; telecommunication network routing
Other keywords: monopole antenna; WSN; motes; destination node; data routing; link performance; IEEE 802.15.4 compliant MICAz sensor nodes; rhombus shaped mesh network; wireless sensor network; steerable beam; adaptive routing performance assessment; multipath rich environment; reliable communication path; electronically steerable parasitic array smart antenna; reflectionless environment
Subjects: Reliability; Antenna arrays; Communication network design, planning and routing; Wireless sensor networks
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