An empirical study of link quality estimation techniques for disconnection detection in WBANs
conference paper
Sensor nodes in many Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) architectures are supposed to deliver sensed data to a gateway node on the body. To satisfy the data delivery requirements, the network needs to adapt itself to the changes in connection status of the body nodes to the gateway. As a prerequisite, Link Quality Estimation (LQE) needs to be done to detect the connection status of the nodes. The quality of links in WBANs is highly time-varying. The LQE technique should be agile to react fast to such link quality dynamics while avoiding frequent fluctuations to reduce the network adaptation overhead. In this paper, we present an empirical study on using different LQE methods for detecting the connection status of body nodes to the gateway in WBANs. A set of experiments using 16 wireless motes deployed on a body are performed to log the behavior of the wireless links. We explore the trade-offs made by each LQE method in terms of agility, stability, and reliability in detecting connection changes by analyzing the experimental data. Moreover, different LQE methods are used in an adaptive multi-hop WBAN mechanism, as a case study, and their impact on the Quality-of-Services (QoS) are investigated. © 2013 ACM.
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TNO Identifier
485024
ISBN
9781450323536
Source title
16th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2013, 3 November 2013 through 8 November 2013, Barcelona
Collation
219-228
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