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Concurrent transmissions for communication protocols in the internet of things
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2016-11
Sprache
English
Start Page
406
End Page
414
Article Number
7796815
Citation
Proceedings - 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2016: 7796815, 406-414
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Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
IEEE
ISBN
978-1-5090-2054-6
Standard Internet communication protocols are key enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT). Recent technological advances have made it possible to run such protocols on resource-constrained devices. Yet these devices often use energy-efficient, low-level communication technologies, like IEEE 802.15.4, which suffer from low-reliability and high latency. These drawbacks can be significantly reduced if communication occurs using concurrent transmissions - a novel communication paradigm for resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we show that Internet protocols like TCP/UDP and CoAP can run efficiently on top of a routing substrate based on concurrent transmissions. We call this substrate LaneFlood and demonstrate its effectiveness through extensive experiments on Flocklab, a publicly available testbed. Our results show that LaneFlood improves upon CXFS - a representative competitor - in terms of both duty cycle and reliability. Furthermore, LaneFlood can transport IoT traffic with an end-to-end latency of less than 300 ms over several hops.
Subjects
Concurrent Transmissions | Internet of Things | Wireless Sensor Networks
DDC Class
600: Technology