Protecting Informative Messages over Burst Error Channels in Chain-based Wireless Sensor Networks

Zahra Taghikhaki, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul Havinga

2015

Abstract

Regardless of the application, the way that data and information are disseminated is an important aspect in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The wireless data dissemination protocol should often guarantee a minimum reliability requirement. In this regard and to well-balance the energy and reliability, the more important packets should be protected by more powerful error control codes than the less important ones. This information-aware capability allows a system to deliver critical information with high reliability but potentially at a higher resource cost. In this paper, we first find and evaluate the factors that may influence the importance level of a packet and then design an error control approach by adaptively selecting codes for each individual links which experience long-term-fading and for each individual packet at run-time instead of applying network-wide settings prior to deployment. Moreover, we target the poor-explored chain-based topology that is of interest for many applications (e.g. monitoring bridge, tunnel, etc.). Simulation results validate the superiority of our approach compared with a number of Reed-Solomon-based error control approaches.

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Taghikhaki Z., Meratnia N. and Havinga P. (2015). Protecting Informative Messages over Burst Error Channels in Chain-based Wireless Sensor Networks . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-086-4, pages 130-141. DOI: 10.5220/0005294601300141


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@conference{sensornets15,
author={Zahra Taghikhaki and Nirvana Meratnia and Paul Havinga},
title={Protecting Informative Messages over Burst Error Channels in Chain-based Wireless Sensor Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2015},
pages={130-141},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005294601300141},
isbn={978-989-758-086-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - Protecting Informative Messages over Burst Error Channels in Chain-based Wireless Sensor Networks
SN - 978-989-758-086-4
AU - Taghikhaki Z.
AU - Meratnia N.
AU - Havinga P.
PY - 2015
SP - 130
EP - 141
DO - 10.5220/0005294601300141