Radio link design framework for WSN deployment and performance prediction

Sergio Saponara; Filippo Giannetti

doi:10.1117/12.2265312

30 May 2017 Radio link design framework for WSN deployment and performance prediction

Sergio Saponara, Filippo Giannetti

Proceedings Volume 10246, Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS VIII; 102461J (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265312
Event: SPIE Microtechnologies, 2017, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

For an easy implementation of wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN), the state-of-the-art is offering single-chip solutions embedding in the same device a microcontroller core with a wireless transceiver. These internet-on-chip devices support different protocols (Bluetooth, ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy, sub- GHz links), from about 300 MHz to 6 GHz, with max. sustained bit-rates from 250 kb/s (sub-GHz links) to 4 Mb/s (Wi-Fi), and different trade-offs between RX sensitivity (from -74 to -100 dBm), RX noise figure (few dB to 10 dB), maximum TX power (from 0 to 22 dBm), link distances, power consumption levels (from few mW to several hundreds of mW). One limit for their successful application is the missing of an easy-to-use modeling and simulation environment to plan their deployment. The need is to predict, before installing a network, at which distances the sensors can be deployed, the real achievable bit-rate, communication latency, outage probability, power consumption, battery duration. To this aim, this paper presents the H²AWKS (Harsh environment and Hardware Aware Wireless linK Simulator) simulator, which allows the planning of a WSAN taking into account environment constraints and hardware parameters. Applications of H²AWKS to real WSAN case studies prove that it is an easy to use simulation environment, which allows design exploration of the system performance of a WSAN as a function of the operating environment and of the hardware parameters of the used devices.

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Sergio Saponara and Filippo Giannetti "Radio link design framework for WSN deployment and performance prediction", Proc. SPIE 10246, Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS VIII, 102461J (30 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265312

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Non-line-of-sight propagation

Sensor networks

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