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Authors:
Horst Hellbrück
Tim Esemann
Uwe Mackenroth
Marius Ciepluch
Arnaud Möschwitzer
Malte Ziethen
Keywords: Wireless Sensor; Cognitive Radio; Firm Real- time; Protocol
Abstract:
Some applications in Sensor Networks need firm real-time support in order to work properly. The difference to hard real-time systems is that this type of application can withstand minor violations of the maximum delay and minimum throughput if these violations are limited. Many standards like IEEE 802.15.4 provide standardized means to ensure delay and bandwidth constraints which work well when there are no interferers in the same frequency band. However, in a heterogeneous environment today these approaches fail when the interference is not aware of the IEEE 802.15.4 traffic. Switching the channel is one option to avoid this kind of interference. We suggest a new non-invasive cognitive radio protocol approach where all participants follow simple rules to enable firm real-time conditions in decentralized design. As a demonstrator we use a three-fold pendulum with firm real-time signal delay constraints of 5ms. The contributions of the paper comprise evaluation results by real measurements with the demonstrator system.
Pages: 203 to 208
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: August 19, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4405
ISBN: 978-1-61208-207-3
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012