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H-NAMe: a hidden-node avoidance mechanism for wireless sensor networks

dc.contributor.authorKoubâa, Anis
dc.contributor.authorSeverino, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorAlves, Mário
dc.contributor.authorTovar, Eduardo
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T15:23:27Z
dc.date.available2014-02-18T15:23:27Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe hidden-node problem has been shown to be a major source of Quality-of-Service (QoS) degradation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to factors such as the limited communication range of sensor nodes, link asymmetry and the characteristics of the physical environment. In wireless contention-based Medium Access Control protocols, if two nodes that are not visible to each other transmit to a third node that is visible to the formers, there will be a collision – usually called hidden-node or blind collision. This problem greatly affects network throughput, energy-efficiency and message transfer delays, which might be particularly dramatic in large-scale WSNs. This paper tackles the hiddennode problem in WSNs and proposes H-NAMe, a simple yet efficient distributed mechanism to overcome it. H-NAMe relies on a grouping strategy that splits each cluster of a WSN into disjoint groups of non-hidden nodes and then scales to multiple clusters via a cluster grouping strategy that guarantees no transmission interference between overlapping clusters. We also show that the H-NAMe mechanism can be easily applied to the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocols with only minor add-ons and ensuring backward compatibility with the standard specifications. We demonstrate the feasibility of H-NAMe via an experimental test-bed, showing that it increases network throughput and transmission success probability up to twice the values obtained without H-NAMe. We believe that the results in this paper will be quite useful in efficiently enabling IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee as a WSN protocolpor
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3965
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewednopor
dc.publisherIPP-Hurray Grouppor
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/docs/por
dc.titleH-NAMe: a hidden-node avoidance mechanism for wireless sensor networkspor
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