Controllable Radio Interference for Experimental and Testing Purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks

Carlo Alberto Boano; Zhitao He; Yafei Li; Thiemo Voigt; Marco Zúñiga; Andreas Willig

doi:10.1109/LCN.2009.5355013

Controllable Radio Interference for Experimental and Testing Purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks

Carlo Alberto Boano, Zhitao He, Yafei Li, Thiemo Voigt, Marco Zúñiga, Andreas Willig

Institute of Computer Engineering

Abstract

We address the problem of generating customized, controlled interference for experimental and testing purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks. The known coexistence problems between electronic devices sharing the same ISM radio band drive the design of new solutions to mitigate interference. The validation of these techniques and the assessment of protocols under external interference require the creation of reproducible and well-controlled interference patterns on real nodes, a nontrivial and time-consuming task. In this paper, we study methods to generate a precisely adjustable level of interference on a specific channel, with lowcost equipment and rapid calibration. We focus our work on the platforms carrying the CC2420 radio chip. We show that, by setting the CC2420 in special mode, we can easily generate repeatable and precise patterns of interference. We show how this method is extremely useful for researchers to quickly investigate the behaviour of sensor network protocols and applications under different patterns of interference. We further evaluate the performance of our proposed method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks
Number of pages	8
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	01.12.2009
Pages	865-872
Article number	5355013
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4488-5, 978-1-4244-4487-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2009.5355013
Publication status	Published - 01.12.2009
Event	2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 20.10.2009 → 23.10.2009 Conference number: 79865

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Boano, CA, He, Z, Li, Y, Voigt, T, Zúñiga, M & Willig, A 2009, Controllable Radio Interference for Experimental and Testing Purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks. in 2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks., 5355013, Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, IEEE, pp. 865-872, 2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks
, Zurich, Switzerland, 20.10.09. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2009.5355013

Controllable Radio Interference for Experimental and Testing Purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks. / Boano, Carlo Alberto; He, Zhitao; Li, Yafei et al.
2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks. IEEE, 2009. p. 865-872 5355013 (Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN).

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