A reliable transmission protocol for ZigBee-based wireless patient monitoring

Patient monitoring systems are gaining their importance as the fast-growing global elderly population increases demands for caretaking. These systems use wireless technologies to transmit vital signs for medical evaluation. In a multihop ZigBee network, the existing systems usually use broadcast or multicast schemes to increase the reliability of signals transmission; however, both the schemes lead to significantly higher network traffic and end-to-end transmission delay. In this paper, we present a reliable transmission protocol based on anycast routing for wireless patient monitoring. Our scheme automatically selects the closest data receiver in an anycast group as a destination to reduce the transmission latency as well as the control overhead. The new protocol also shortens the latency of path recovery by initiating route recovery from the intermediate routers of the original path. On the basis of a reliable transmission scheme, we implement a ZigBee device for fall monitoring, which integrates fall detection, indoor positioning, and ECG monitoring. When the triaxial accelerometer of the device detects a fall, the current position of the patient is transmitted to an emergency center through a ZigBee network. In order to clarify the situation of the fallen patient, 4-s ECG signals are also transmitted. Our transmission scheme ensures the successful transmission of these critical messages. The experimental results show that our scheme is fast and reliable. We also demonstrate that our devices can seamlessly integrate with the next generation technology of wireless wide area network, worldwide interoperability for microwave access, to achieve real-time patient monitoring.     

WAP传输层安全协议的分析及改进

引言移动通信技术和Internet技术,代表着当今世界信息技术的发展潮流,这两项技术对人类生产和生活的影响,无论在深度还是广度上都是前所未有的;而随着无线应用协议(WAP)的问世,建立在第三代移动通信技术基础上的移动互联网将再次引发一场新的革命。移动互联网的基础——WAP(Wireless Application Protocol)是由一系列协议组成的,它的作用是使标准化的无线通信设备,例如蜂窝电话、移动终端等可进行Internet访问,包括收发电子邮件、访问WWW页面等。WAP协议中的WAE层含有微型浏览器、WML、WMLSCRIPT的解释器等功能。WAP网站由W…     

A data transmission protocol for reliable and energy-efficient data transmission in a wireless sensor-actuator network

In a wireless sensor-actuator network, sensor nodes gather information on the physical world and can deliver messages with sensed values to only nearby nodes due to weak radio. Thus, messages sent by nodes might be lost due to not only collision but also noise. Messages are forwarded by sensor nodes to an actuator node. In the redundant data transmission (RT) protocol, a sensor node sends a message with not only its sensed value but also sensed values received from other sensor nodes. Even if a message with a sensed value v is lost, an actuator node can receive the value v from a message sent by another sensor node. In addition, we have to reduce the energy consumption of a sensor node. A sensor node mainly consumes the energy to send and receive messages. Even if an event occurs, only some number of sensor nodes sensing the event send the sensed values to reduce the total energy consumption. We discuss an energy-efficient data transmission protocol. We evaluate the RT protocol compared with the CSMA protocol in terms of how much sensing data a node can receive in presence of messages loss. We evaluate the RT protocol in terms of how many number of sensed values an actuator node can receive in presence of message loss. We show that about 72% of sensed values can be delivered to an actuator node even if 95% of messages are lost due to noise and collision.     

一种基于功率控制的无线传感器网络MAC协议

提出了一种基于功率控制机制的无线传感器网络MAC协议 Distance Prediction Power Control MAC (DPPC-MAC).DPPC-MAC协议基于目前十分成熟的SMAC协议[1-2],引入了功率控制机制以降低数据包发送时的能耗,并且提出了一种新的通过功率预测距离来解决暴露终端和隐藏终端的方法.仿真结果表明,DPPC-MAC能有效降低网络能耗,同时吞吐量性能也得到了一定的改善.     

Spectrally efficient cooperative diversity protocol for uplink wireless transmission

A spectrally efficient cooperative protocol for uplink wireless transmission in a centralised communication system is proposed, where each of the N users play the relaying and source roles simultaneously by using superposition (SP) modulation. The probability density function of the mutual information between SP-modulated transmitted and received signals of the cooperative uplink channels is derived. Using the high-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) approximation of this density function, the outage probability formula of the system as well as its easily computable tight upper and lower bounds are obtained and these formulas are evaluated numerically. Numerical results show that the proposed strategy can achieve around 3 dB performance gain over comparable schemes. Furthermore, the multiplexing and diversity trade-off formula is derived to illustrate the optimal performance of the proposed protocol, which also confirms that the SP relaying transmission does not cause any loss of data rate. Moreover, performance characterisation in terms of ergodic and outage capacities are studied and numerical results show that the proposed scheme can achieve significantly larger outage capacity than direct transmission, which is similar to other cooperative schemes. The superiority of the proposed strategy is demonstrated by the fact that it can maintain almost the same ergodic capacity as the direct transmission, whereas the ergodic capacity of other cooperative schemes would be much worse.     

A wireless multimedia transmission control algorithm over heterogeneous IP networks

In this paper,an algorithm Wireless Multimedia Transmission Control(WMTC) is proposed for multimedia transmission control over wired-wireless networks.The relationship between packet length and packet loss rate in the Gilbert wireless error model is investigated.Furthermore,the algorithm can detect the nature of packet losses by sending large and small packets alternately,and control the sending rate of nodes.In addition,by means of updating factor K,this algorithm can adapt to the changes of network states...     

无线视频的一种码率控制方法

无线信道的高误码率对视频图像质量有很大的影响,前向纠错(FEC)和自动重发请求(ARQ)对于降低无线信道的误码率,提高图像质量有很好的效果。通过对FEC和ARQ方法的有效性分析,在TMN8的基础上提出一种简单的混合FEC/ARQ自适应模式选择码率控制方法。该方法首先预测报文丢失数量和纠错报文传输时延,从而选择合适的纠错编码模式,并为纠错编码分配比特数。实验结果表明该方法有效降低无线信道下报文丢失率,显著提高了图像质量。     

基于网络协议的无线远程数据传输系统设计

目前多路数据无线传输技术,普遍受传输距离限制,无法实现稳定的远程通信;此外,需租用公网IP的远程传输,使得运行成本大大增加。基于此,设计一种以STM32嵌入式处理器为控制核心,将网络协议与无线模块ESP8266相结合的多路数据采集与远程无线传输系统。该系统采用Java进行基于TCP/IP的通信协议编程,来避免租用公网IP。另外,无线模块与上位机通过所编写的通信协议相连接,来实现数据的远程通信。最后,通过实际测试验证了所提系统设计的可行性。     

A distributed transmission power control protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

In this paper, we propose a comprehensive solution for power control in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Our solution emphasizes the interplay between the MAC and network layers, whereby the MAC layer indirectly influences the selection of the next-hop by properly adjusting the power of route request packets. This is done while maintaining network connectivity. Channel-gain information obtained mainly from overheard RTS and CTS packets is used to dynamically construct the network topology. Unlike the IEEE 802.11 approach and previously proposed schemes, ours does not use the RTS/CTS packets to silence the neighboring nodes. Instead, collision avoidance information is inserted in the CTS packets and sent over an out-of-band control channel. This information is used to dynamically bound the transmission power of potentially interfering nodes in the vicinity of a receiver. By properly estimating the required transmission power for data packets, our protocol allows for interference-limited simultaneous transmissions to take place in the neighborhood of a receiving node. Simulation results indicate that, compared to the IEEE 802.11 approach, the proposed protocol achieves a significant increase in the channel utilization and end-to-end network throughput and a significant decrease in the total energy consumption.     

On transmission control protocol synchronization in optical burst switching

This article studies the transmission control protocol (TCP) synchronization effect in optical burst switched networks. Synchronization of TCP flows appears when optical bursts with segments from different flows inside are dropped in the network causing flow congestion windows decreasing simultaneously. In this article, this imminent effect is studied with different assembly schemes and network scenarios. Different metrics are applied to quantitatively assess synchronization with classical assembly schemes. A new burst assembly scheme is proposed that statically or dynamically allocates flows to multiple assembly queues to control flow aggregation within the assembly cycle. The effectiveness of the scheme has been evaluated, showing a good improvement in optical link utilization.     

一种无线ATM网络的MAC协议

主要研究了无线ATM网络对MAC的需求，并介绍了适用于无线ATM的一种新的MAC方案。该协议支持不同类型信息传输，比如恒定比特率（CBR），可变比特率（VBR），可用比特率（ABR），未指定比特率（UBR）。另外此协议还提供了对宽带ATM主干网的无缝连接。同时也支持与ATM相关的QoS级别。对于该协议关注的各种情况的主要原理进行了讨论。     

Mobility management and control protocol for wireless ATM networks

The introduction of wireless ATM (WATM) in customer premises network environments necessitates the design of mobility protocols, since the existing versions of B-ISDN signaling do not support terminal mobility. Such protocols can be deployed either as extensions to the standard signaling capabilities, or as individual solutions that have little or no impact on existing infrastructures (switches, signaling software, etc.). A WATM architecture that adopts the latter approach is presented. After a discussion of the problems encountered in the integration of wireless networking and B-ISDN ATM technologies, a mobility management and control (MMC) protocol is proposed. Finally, in the framework of the proposed MMC protocol, algorithms for implementing mobility procedures (handover and registration) are described     

A MAC protocol to support hybrid antennas in a wireless LAN

Hybrid Distributed Coordination Function （HDCF）, a modified medium access control protocol of IEEE 802.11 standard, is proposed in this paper to support both smart adaptive array antennas and normal omni-directional antennas simultaneously in one wireless LAN. Omni-directional antennas follow the standard Distributed Coordination Function （DCF） and smart antennas follow the Directional DCF （DDCF）. The proposed DDCF is based on Hybrid Virtual Carrier Sense （HVCS） mechanism, which includes Omni-directional Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send （ORTS/OCTS） handshake mechanism and directional data transmission. HDCF is compatible with DCF. When a node transmits in a directional beam, the other nodes can multiplex the physical channel. Hence, HDCF supports Space Division Multiple Access （SDMA）. Simulation results show that HDCF can support hybrid antennas effectively and provide much higher network throughput and lower delay and jitter than DCF does.     

空间信息网络可靠传输协议研究

设计了与传统TCP相兼容的空间信息网络可靠传输协议STP.协议针对空间环境特点从慢启动算法、拥塞避免算法、快速重传和快速恢复算法等多方面对传统TCP进行综合改进,仿真分析结果表明STP协议比传统TCP性能有较大提升,也比主要针对卫星通信的TCP改进协议的性能有一定改善.能较好地适应空间信息网络中的信息可靠传输需求.     

A data link control protocol for broadband wireless networks with adaptive coding rate

One of the challenges of broadband wireless multimedia networks is to design a wireless data link control (W‐DLC) protocol which provides reliable data delivery over the noisy wireless link in an efficient manner. This paper presents our proposal of such a W‐DLC protocol, based on a new coding scheme called multi‐dimensional concatenated zigzag code. Both real‐time and non‐real‐time traffic can be efficiently supported by adopting different error control mechanisms. A distinct feature of the protocol is that the coding rate can be adapted to a wide range of channel conditions. Hence, our protocol utilizes the scarce wireless channel resources more efficiently. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

单片机控制MC55模块实现远程无线数据传输

西门子MC55模块是一款内嵌TCP/IP协议的GPRS无线模块,可以直接利用AT命令来实现多种网络数据传输服务.文中以NEC 78K0/KF2系列8位单片机78F0547D作为微控制器,利用其自带的异步串口和MC55模块连接,使用AT命令对MC55模块进行控制,实现SOCKET通信、FTP服务、E-MAIL服务等多种网络服务,从而实现远程数据传输.本文详细介绍控制MC55模块进行网络服务的相关AT命令,并给出实现SOCKET通信的初始化设计流程.     

A near-optimum cross-layered distributed queuing protocol for wireless LAN [medium access control protocols for wireless LANs]

Distributed queuing collision avoidance (DQCA) is a distributed MAC protocol for WLAN systems that offers near optimum performance. The protocol implements a reservation scheme that ensures collision-free data transmissions for high traffic load and switches smoothly and automatically to a random access mechanism when the traffic load is light, improving the delay performance for this situation. In this article the DQCA protocol operation is thoroughly described, and its algorithm rules are given. Furthermore, an enhanced cross-layer scheduling mechanism is also proposed for inclusion in the protocol procedure. This mechanism employs a virtual priority function to reschedule transmissions according to a cross-layer design. Two possible configurations are described in this article by including a PHY-MAC dialog involving channel stale information and the waiting time of the packets in the system, offering a trade-off between throughput maximization and fairness. The performance in terms of throughput and mean delay of DQCA and the two cross-layer schemes has been evaluated through simulations, and a significant enhancement over legacy IEEE 802.11 operation is achieved. The obtained results emphasize the advantages of the proposed schemes and the importance of cross-layer design in wireless communication systems.     

Mobility-aware timeout medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), has been under development for a while by the academia and industry. Due to limited computational power, a typical sensor node may experience operational challenges. Moreover, mobility has become an important feature since emergency and healthcare related applications are evolving in WSNs. Consideration of mobile nodes in WSNs introduce new challenges for the designers. In this paper, an enhanced version of T-MAC protocol (a well-known medium access control protocol in WSNs) known as MT-MAC is proposed. Using the capturing fluctuation in RSSI and LQI values of the received SYNC packets, MT-MAC solves high packet drop ratio in T-MAC. By detecting the mobility, a mobile node softly handover to a new virtual cluster without losing connection with other nodes. The performance of the proposed solution is then compared with T-MAC, S-MAC as well as other well-known mobility-aware MAC (MS-MAC) protocol. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol significantly increases the throughput and packet delivery ratio of T-MAC in exchange for a small increase in power consumption. Compared to MS-MAC protocol, the proposed approach can reduce power consumption by 20–65%, and achieve slightly higher packet delivery ratio.     

Surface losses in transmission lines

Two derivations of the loss parameter R, entirely from wave considerations in the presence of a metallic interface, are presented. R, which represents surface losses, occurs in transmission line equations for propagation of the voltage across the plates and of the current in the plates. Explanation of the surface losses involves some radiation of the interior fields into the metallic surfaces that absorb electromagnetic energy, and that ultimately convert it into ohmic losses (heat). Although the approach may restrict the derivation to a planar interface, i.e., to a parallel-plate transmission line, that restriction is not so essential that it cannot be softened     

A wireless MAC protocol using implicit pipelining

In distributed multiple access control protocols, two categories of overhead are usually associated with contention resolution. One is channel idle overhead, where all contending stations are waiting to transmit. Another is collision overhead, which occurs when multiple contending stations attempt to transmit simultaneously. Either idle overhead or collision overhead being large, contention resolution algorithm would be inefficient. Prior research work tries to minimize both the idle and the collision overheads using various methods. In this paper, we propose to apply "pipelining" techniques to the design of multiple access control protocol so that channel idle overhead could be (partially) hidden and the collision overhead could be reduced. While the concept of pipelined scheduling can be applied to various MAC protocol designs in general, in this paper, we focus on its application to IEEE 802.11 DCF. In particular, an implicitly pipelined dual-stage contention resolution MAC protocol (named DSCR) is proposed. With IEEE 802.11, the efficiency of contention resolution degrades dramatically with the increasing load due to high probability of collision. Using the implicit pipelining technique, DSCR hides the majority of channel idle time and reduces the collision probability, hence, improves channel utilization, average access delay, and access energy cost over 802.11 significantly both in wireless LANs and in multihop networks. The simulation results, as well as some analysis, are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of DSCR.