Poster abstract: Exploiting the LQI variance for rapid channel quality assessment

Carlo Alberto Boano; Thiemo Voigt; Adam Dunkels; Fredrik Österlind; Nicolas Tsiftes; Luca Mottola; Pablo Suárez

Poster abstract: Exploiting the LQI variance for rapid channel quality assessment

Carlo Alberto Boano, Thiemo Voigt, Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Österlind, Nicolas Tsiftes, Luca Mottola, Pablo Suárez

Institute of Computer Engineering

Abstract

Communicating over a reliable radio channel is vital for an efficient resource usage in sensor networks: a bad radio channel can lead to poor application performance and higher energy consumption. Previous research has shown that the LQI mean value is a good estimator of the link quality. Nevertheless, due to its high variance, many packets are needed to obtain a reliable estimation. Based on experimental results, we show instead that the LQI variance is not a limitation. We show that the variance of the LQI can be used as a metric for a rapid channel quality assessment. Our initial results indicate that identifying good channels using the LQI variance requires an order of magnitude fewer packets than when using the mean LQI.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Number of pages	2
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	16.11.2009
Pages	369-370
Article number	5211911
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-5108-1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-60558-371-6
Publication status	Published - 16.11.2009
Event	2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks - San Francisco, United States Duration: 13.04.2009 → 16.04.2009 Conference number: 77948

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Boano, CA, Voigt, T, Dunkels, A, Österlind, F, Tsiftes, N, Mottola, L & Suárez, P 2009, Poster abstract: Exploiting the LQI variance for rapid channel quality assessment. in 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks., 5211911, Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE, pp. 369-370, 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
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Poster abstract: Exploiting the LQI variance for rapid channel quality assessment. / Boano, Carlo Alberto; Voigt, Thiemo; Dunkels, Adam et al.

2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. IEEE, 2009. p. 369-370 5211911 (Proceedings of IEEE).

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