IEEE 802.15.4: a wireless communication technology for large-scale ubiquitous computing applications
Anis Koubâa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
PP-HURRAY! Research Group, Polytechnic Institute of Porto Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, PORTUGAL {akoubaa, emt}@dei.isep.ipp.pt, mjf@isep.ipp.pt
Abstract. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been attracting increasing interest for supporting a new generation of ubiquitous computing systems with great potential for many applications such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, health care monitoring or home automation. However, the communication paradigms in WSNs differ from the ones associated to traditional wireless networks, triggering the need for new
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Additionally, the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol may also provide timeliness guarantees by using the Guaranteed-Time Slot (GTS) mechanism, which is quite attractive for time-sensitive WSNs. In fact, when operating in beacon-enabled mode, i.e. beacon frames are transmitted periodically by a central node called the PAN Coordinator for synchronizing the network, the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol allows the allocation/deallocation of GTSs in a superframe for applications with real-time constraints. Hence, the GTS mechanism provides a minimum service guarantee for the corresponding nodes, thus enabling the prediction of the worst-case performance for each node's application. In this paper, we describe the most important features of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol that are relevant for WSNs and we discuss the ability of this protocol to fulfill the different requirements of WSNs and to resolve inherent paradoxes involving power-efficiency and timeliness guarantees.
2. Overview of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol
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