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A Packet-Interleaving Scheme for Reliability Resilience under Burst Errors in Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors:
Tsang-Ling Sheu
Yen-Hsi Kuo

Keywords: WSN, RS Code, burst errors, interleaving, packet uncorrectable probability

Abstract:
This paper presents a packet interleaving scheme (PIS) for increasing packet reliability under burst errors in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The proposed PIS, using Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, classifies data into two types: high-reliability-required (HRR) data and non-HRR data. An HRR packet is encoded with a short RS symbol, while a non-HRR packet with a long RS symbol. When an HRR and a non-HRR packet arrive at a sensor, they are interleaved on a symbol by symbol basis. Thus, the effect of burst errors (BE) is dispersed and consequently the uncorrectable HRR packets can be reduced. For the purpose of evaluation, two models, the uniform bit-error model (UBEM) and the on-off bit-error model (OBEM), are built to analyze the packet uncorrectable probability. In the evaluation, we first change the lengths of BE, then we vary the shift positions in a BE period, and finally we increase the number of correctable symbols to observe the superiority of the proposed PIS in reducing packet uncorrectable probability.

Pages: 46 to 51

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: February 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-450-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 21, 2016 to February 25, 2016