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- Boano, Carlo Alberto, et al.
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Hot Packets : A systematic evaluation of the effect of temperature on low power wireless transceivers
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proc. 5th Extreme Conference on Communication. - New York : ACM Press. - 9781450321716 ; , s. 7-12
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Temperature is known to have a significant effect on the performance of radio transceivers: the higher the temperature, the lower the quality of links. Analysing this effect is particularly important in sensor networks because several applications are exposed to harsh environmental conditions. Daily or hourly changes in temperature can dramatically reduce the throughput, increase the delay, or even lead to network partitions. A few studies have quantified the impact of temperature on low-power wireless links, but only for a limited temperature range and on a single radio transceiver. Building on top of these preliminary observations, we design a low-cost experimental infrastructure to vary the onboard temperature of sensor nodes in a repeatable fashion, and we study systematically the impact of temperature on various sensornet platforms. We show that temperature affects transmitting and receiving nodes differently, and that all platforms follow a similar trend that can be captured in a simple first-order model. This work represents an initial stepping stone aimed at predicting the performance of a network considering the particular temperature profile of a given environment.
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- Wennerström, Hjalmar, et al.
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Transmission errors in a sensor network at the edge of the world
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proc. 5th Extreme Conference on Communication. - New York : ACM Press. - 9781450321716
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The performance of an outdoor wireless sensor network for remote monitoring is dictated by its ability to deliver sensed data to a sink. The often isolated location means that radio interference is typically low and with different patterns in transmission errors compared to an indoor deployment. To better understand these processes, we investigate packet errors in such a network. Specically, we study characteristics of decoding errors within 802.15.4 transmissions.We describe the experimental deployment of an outdoor sensor network, located above the Arctic circle, where we log both successfully received and broken packets. Results indicate that a substantial amount of received packets contain errors, where the errors in each packet are typically few. We distinguish between transmission errors and payload errors, and find that transmission errors are equally probable over all positions of a packet, whereas bit errors in the payload are not. This results in some bits having a 25% higher risk of being corrupted than others.
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