IEEE802.15.4标准的无线传感器网络自组网方案

无线传感器网络需要低功耗短距离的无线通信技术,IEEE 802.15.4标准就是针对低速无线个人区域网络的无线通信标准,把低功耗、低成本作为设计的主要目标,由于IEEE 802.15.4标准定义的LR-WPAN网和无线传感器网络存在很多相似之处.所以把它作为无线传感器的无线通信平台.在分析LR-WPAN网的网络拓扑及形成过程的基础上,实现无线传感器网络的自组网方案.     

Emergency access mechanism in IEEE 802.15.4 for wireless body area sensor networks

IEEE 802.15.4 protocol has attracted much attention in research and industrial communities as candidate technology for wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs). IEEE 802.15.4 supports the exclusive use of a wireless channel through guaranteed time slot (GTS). However, on one hand, bandwidth underutilization rate may be lower because of the variance between the guaranteed bandwidth and the arrival rate. On the other hand, the waiting time for transmitting emergency notification is getting longer when the GTSs assigned to the nodes increase in WBASNs. To solve these problems, in this article, a new scheme is proposed to reduce transmission delay for the alarm notification in emergent situations. Simulation results are presented to validate the efficiency of the proposed scheme by comparing it with the medium access control (MAC) protocol of IEEE 802.15.4.     

Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 sensor networks in industrial applications

Wireless sensor networks have been widely applied in industrial applications especially since the release of IEEE 802.15.4 standard. By participating in an automobile project in which an IEEE 802.15.4 based sensor and actuator network is deployed to measure and control the vibrations of an automotive system, we need to study many metrics of IEEE 802.15.4 sensor networks (e.g., packet delivery rate, latency, and energy consumption) under various sampling rates. In order to provide detailed modeling of hardware and software as well as network behaviors on each sensor node, we conduct plenty of experiments on a SystemC‐based wireless sensor networks simulator IDEA1, which supports the hardware and software co‐simulation of sensor nodes with certain flexibility of abstraction level. Compared with the existing works on performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 protocols, the main contributions of this paper are the comprehensive studies of both beacon‐enabled and nonbeacon‐enabled modes under various parameter settings and the beacon tracking synchronization mechanism in the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which is ignored in most previous works. Additionally, the in‐depth analysis of simulation results enables us to find the best parameter configurations to different traffic loads and application requirements, which can be used as general experiences for other applications.Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

移动Sink传感网中基于IEEE 802.15.4的拓扑控制与路由

针对查询驱动的移动Sink无线传感器网络,基于IEEE 802.15.4标准,提出了一个联合簇树组网和移动路由的跨层协议设计方案。以能耗、网络连通度、负载均衡和子树深度等指标为评价因子,在多目标优化模型下定义了一个拓扑综合评价函数,构建稳定的最优簇树网络结构;改进了IEEE 802.15.4 MAC中基于信标帧调度的分布式睡眠同步算法,维护较低占空比下的网络同步与拓扑修正;利用拓扑形成过程中依"最早信标帧"、"最好链路"、"最小层次"3种准则确立的父子关系,建立移动Sink与N-Hop范围内节点的双向路由路径。最终将上述MAC层的拓扑控制方案与网络层的查询路由方法完整实现于TinyOS协议栈中。实验结果表明,评价函数能够有效地反映组网质量,N-Hop后验式路由结合睡眠同步机制,在"最好链路"拓扑下表现出较高的能量效率。     

Duty cycle learning algorithm (DCLA) for IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled wireless sensor networks

The current specification of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for beacon-enabled wireless sensor networks does not define how the fraction of the time that wireless nodes are active, known as the duty cycle, needs to be configured in order to achieve the optimal network performance in all traffic conditions. The work presented here proposes a duty cycle learning algorithm (DCLA) that adapts the duty cycle during run time without the need of human intervention in order to minimise power consumption while balancing probability of successful data delivery and delay constraints of the application. Running on coordinator devices, DCLA collects network statistics during each active duration to estimate the incoming traffic. Then, at each beacon interval uses the reinforcement learning (RL) framework as the method for learning the best duty cycle. Our approach eliminates the necessity for manually (re-)configuring the nodes duty cycle for the specific requirements of each network deployment. This presents the advantage of greatly reducing the time and cost of the wireless sensor network deployment, operation and management phases. DCLA has low memory and processing requirements making it suitable for typical wireless sensor platforms. Simulations show that DCLA achieves the best overall performance for either constant and event-based traffic when compared with existing IEEE 802.15.4 duty cycle adaptation schemes.     

基于IEEE 802.15.4的无线USB适配器设计与实现

在无线传感器监测网络中,通常需要一个网络协调器将各终端节点采集的数据上传给监控中心,但是在有些场合用网络协调器组网很不方便。为此,本文介绍了利用USB接口技术优势结合IEEE802.15.4标准协议特点开发的无线USB适配器,详细阐述了该设备无线收发器模块、USB与串口数据转换模块等部分软、硬件设计原理,并通过组网进行了实际的测试。该设备的设计解决了现场监测环境中一系列组网复杂、开发成本过高等实际问题。     

一种用于低功耗低成本的IEEE802.15.4接收器的新颖解调算法

提出了一种基于低中频、适用于ISM2.4 GHz频段ZigBee接收机的新型解调算法,满足IEEE802.15.4标准.作为数字相位解调,本算法采用相位差分、频率补偿和符号恢复,不用分别恢复出I路和Q路的码序列,而直接提取出相位斜率码,恢复出符号,从而简化了解调结构、降低了功耗和成本.通过与零中频过零检测算法的比较,本算法具有更低复杂度,更好的误符号率和误包率,完全满足IEEE802.15.4/ZigBeeTM标准的要求.     

A real‐time noise resilient data link layer mechanism for unslotted IEEE 802.15.4 networks

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 is a protocol operating in media access control and physical layer, and it is commonly used in low‐power and low data‐rate wireless communications. In this paper, we develop a stochastic model for unslotted operations of IEEE 802.15.4 networks. Signal fading is an important factor in mobile communications. According to the level of fading, signal‐to‐noise ratio gets dynamically changing values. Given a pair of nodes communicating to each‐other in a mobile channel, the model calculates frame sizes providing maximum data‐rate of successful IEEE 802.15.4 transmissions. The experimental results in various environments are given in the paper to discuss the success of the model. In the consideration of real‐time operations, the model is improved to be operated in a low‐complexity hardware/software unit. According to experimental results presented in the paper, the proposed model seems to be suitable in mobile environments by achieving high data‐transfer rate for unslotted IEEE 802.15.4 protocol. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

IEEE802.15.4协议的性能分析与仿真

IEEE 802.15.4是一个自组织的无线网络标准,其中制定了PHY层和MAC层规范,主要应用场合为低成本、低功耗、低复杂度的无线个域网.许多参数在IEEE 802.15.4标准中仅给出取值范围而并未给出确定的值,虽然这些值对系统性能有着较为显著的影响.个域网中的设备大量采用电池供电,因此实现更低的能量消耗是该网络标...     

Performance evaluation of co-located IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless body sensor networks

Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are expected to play a pivotal role in health-related and well-being applications. In this paper, we consider a situation in which a large number of people wearing body sensor networks are gathered in very close vicinity (as can happen in sport events or emergency hospitals). Clearly, BSNs compete with each other to gain access to the same frequency which results in experiencing mutual (internal) interference. Therefore, we investigate the “internal interference” and its destructive impacts on the overall performance gain of WBSNs using IEEE 802.15.4 standard protocol. As the number of WBSNs increases in the channel, it becomes highly likely for active periods of neighbouring WBSNs to overlap with each other. The increase in overlapping active periods would increase the probability of packet collisions leading to performance degradation. In this paper, two types of interference mitigation strategies are proposed, namely passive schemes and active scheme. The terms passive and active refer to the absence and presence of the capability of communication between WBSNs to efficiently utilise the same frequency spectrum. According to the passive schemes, WBSNs are enabled to change their operating frequencies whenever required to mitigate the impacts of internal interference, whereas active scheme offers collaborative utilisation of the channel. The simulation results show that the proposed active scheme represents the highest performance gains compared to the proposed practical passive schemes.     

IEEE802.15.4中AES-CCM协议的扩展指令集实现

该文在高级加密标准(AES)快速算法的基础上,设计了一组基于可配置处理器NiosII上的扩展指令,用于IEEE802.15.4标准媒体访问控制层中基于AES算法的计数器模式和密码分组链接消息验证码(AES-CCM)协议的硬件加速。该文首先推导出快速算法中用于轮变换的查找表与S盒的逻辑关系,然后通过复合域变换方法用硬件电路实现S盒的计算,从而消除了支撑扩展指令集的硬件逻辑对片上存储空间的消耗。同时给出该协议基于查表法的扩展指令集和协处理器的设计方案,并在EP2C35芯片上进行实现和对比。该方案仅消耗223个逻辑单元(LE),吞吐量为668.7 kbps,时钟周期数比软件算法加速174.6倍,芯片面积仅为协处理器方案的9.5%,显著降低了无线传感网节点设备的成本和功耗。     

A novel method for mitigating the effects of dynamic coexistence on the operation of IEEE 802.15.4‐based mobile WSNs

Wireless networks dynamically coexist when their transmission ranges overlap as a result of mobility. Mobile wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may suffer from significant degradation of performance due to the interference caused by dynamic coexistence, which is particularly critical for health monitoring WSNs. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect and mitigate the harmful effects of dynamic coexistence on the operation of IEEE 802.15.4‐based mobile health monitoring WSNs. IEEE 802.15.4 uses the guaranteed time slots (GTS) mechanism to eliminate contention; however, successful transmissions cannot be guaranteed for coexisting WSNs. We show that using limited clear channel assessments at the beginning of the GTS enables the mobile WSNs to avoid collisions with minimum overhead. This method can also be used in combination with the previously proposed mechanisms for coexistence management. We analytically investigate the effects of using this method on the performance of the dynamically coexisting WSNs. We use OPNET simulation to investigate the coexistence of health monitoring WSNs and also to validate the proposed method. Our results indicate that using the proposed mechanism, 2–10 coexisting mobile WSNs with relatively high transmission rates (20–30% of maximum throughput) can achieve 20–90% higher rates of successful transmissions, with less than 10% increase in power consumption. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于IEEE802.15.4退避算法的改进机制

IEEE802.15.4是供低速率、低功耗和低成本设备使用的短距离无线通信的协议,定义了低速无线个域网(LR-WPANs)的MAC层和物理层规范.由于在例如无线体域网(WBAN)应用中,能量消耗是备受关注的问题,因此提出了一种基于时槽机制的CSMA/CA过程中改进的退避算法,在每次CSMA/CA开始时根据过去的传输状况动态地调整竞争窗口的最小值.通过NS-2进行仿真,实验结果表明这样的改进方案在业务负载比较高或者包的大小比较小的时候可以减少数据包碰撞概率和重传概率,从而可以减少功耗并且提高吞吐量性能.     

Robust power control for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks with round‐trip time‐delay uncertainty

This paper presents a novel, practically implementable robust Power Control (PC) technique that is generally applicable to a variety of IEEE 802.15.4 infrastructure and peer‐to‐peer wireless sensor networks (WSNs) where there is a round‐trip time‐delay uncertainty. In this methodology, robust stability and performance constraints are cast as a set of exclusion regions on the Nichols chart. The desired PC strategy is achieved through an iterative shaping of the system frequency response until these constraints are satisfied. A Smith Predictor (SP) is also adopted to mitigate the effects of time delay that occurs quite naturally in this type of problem. Such an approach is shown to be entirely appropriate for the discrete time controller design problem at hand. The designs are validated experimentally using a fully compliant 802.15.4 testbed where mobility is introduced using autonomous robots. This testbed provides a good basis for a formal comparison of the new approach against a number of existing strategies. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种适用于IEEE802.15.4协议的带频率调谐的伪差分Gm-C复数滤波器

本文针对IEEE802.15.4协议的低中频接收机,提出一种CMOS Gm-C复数滤波器。该滤波器采用具有可重构共模反馈和共模前馈功能的伪差分OTA结构。文章还提出一种基于松弛振荡器的频率调谐方法,并对OTA的非线性和频率调谐方法进行了详细分析,分析及测试结果均表明该滤波器能够实现精确调谐的功能。芯片采用标准0.35μm CMOS工艺制作,测试结果显示,滤波器消耗电流2.1mA,带内群延时波动小于0.16μs,2MHz频偏处IRR大于28dB,可以满足IEEE802.15.4协议的要求。     

A survey and comparison of multichannel protocols for performance anomaly mitigation in IEEE 802.11wireless networks

Providing multichannel functionality can improve the performance of wireless networks. Although off‐the‐shelf IEEE 802.11 physical layer and medium access control specifications support multiple channels and multiple data rates, one of the major challenges is how to efficiently utilize available channels and data rates to improve network performance. In multirate networks, low‐rate links severely degrade the capacity of high‐rate links, which is known as performance anomaly. To overcome the performance anomaly problem, different data rate links can get equal air‐time by exploiting time diversity and frequency diversity, or they can be separated over nonoverlapping channels. In this paper, we study existing multichannel protocols proposed to mitigate the performance anomaly problem by classifying them into single‐radio protocols, multiradio single‐hop protocols, and multiradio multihop protocols. To investigate the effectiveness of multichannel solutions for performance anomaly, we compare these protocols with well‐known multichannel protocols that do not consider performance anomaly. In addition, this paper gives insightful research issues to design multichannel protocols that mitigate performance anomaly in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A pseudo differential Gm-C complex filter with frequency tuning for IEEE802.15.4 applications

This paper presents a CMOS G_m-C complex filter for a low-IF receiver of the IEEE802.15.4 standard.A pseudo differential OTA with reconfigurable common mode feedback and common mode feed-forward is proposed as well as the frequency tuning method based on a relaxation oscillator.A detailed analysis of non-ideality of the OTA and the frequency tuning method is elaborated.The analysis and measurement results have shown that the center frequency of the complex filter could be tuned accurately.The chip was fabricated in a standard 0.35μm CMOS process,with a single 3.3 V power supply.The filter consumes 2.1 mA current,has a measured in-band group delay ripple of less than 0.16μs and an IRR larger than 28 dB at 2 MHz apart,which could meet the requirements of the IEEE802.15.4 standard.     

Coexistence of 2.4 GHz sensor networks in home environment

The IEEE 802.15.4 is one of the low-layer communication standards for personal area networks(PANs) and wireless sensor networks(WSNs),which may be interfered by other wireless devices in the industrial,scientific and medical(ISM) frequency bands,especially in home environment,such as devices of IEEE 802.11b,Bluetooth,cordless telephone,and microwave oven radiation.This article examines the mutual interference effects of 2.4 GHz devices widely deployed at home,via both theoretical analysis and real-life expe...     

QoS evaluation of energy-efficient ML-MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

Power management is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because wireless sensor nodes are usually battery powered, and an efficient use of the available battery power becomes an important concern specially for those applications where the system is expected to operate for long durations. This necessity for energy efficient operation of a WSN has prompted the development of new protocols in all layers of the communication stack. If the radio transceiver is the most power consuming component of a typical sensor node, large gains can be achieved at the link layer where the medium access control (MAC) protocol controls the usage of the radio transceiver unit.     

无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究综述

在无线传感网( WSN)体系结构中,介质访问控制( MAC)协议负责调配网络中节点的信道接入,具有保障网络高效通信的重要作用。混合类MAC 协议综合了竞争类MAC 协议以及调度类MAC协议的特点,在融合两种机制的优点的同时克服其缺点,为无线信道资源的分配提供了更加灵活和全面的策略。首先概述了无线传感网MAC协议设计要点及分类,然后重点分析了无线传感网中经典的混合类MAC协议及国内外前沿的研究进展,并进一步归纳对比了各协议运行机制、性能及不足,得出混合类MAC协议的应用相关性及差异性的结论,最后总结了无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究现状并指出了未来的研究重点,以期为相关领域的研究人员提供参考。