Wireless personal area networks : performance, interconnections and security with IEEE 802.15.4 /

Wireless personal area networks : performance, interconnections and security with IEEE 802.15.4 /

Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) standard. It assesses the suitability of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mišić, Jelena, Mišić, Jelena
Other Authors: Mišić, Vojislav B, Mišić, Vojislav B
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : c2008
Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : [2008]
Series:Wiley series on wireless communications and mobile computing
Subjects:
Bluetooth technology
Personal communication service systems > Standards
Wireless LANs
Personal communication service systems
Table of Contents:
  • Part I WPANS and 802.15.4 1
  • 1 Prologue: Wireless Personal Area Networks 3
  • 1.1 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 3
  • 1.2 Design Goals for the MAC Protocol 4
  • 1.3 Classification of MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks 6
  • 1.4 Contention-Based MAC Protocols 9
  • 1.5 New Kinds of Ad Hoc Networks 12
  • 1.6 Sensor Networks 12
  • 2 Operation of the IEEE 802.15.4 Network 17
  • 2.1 Physical Layer Characteristics 17
  • 2.2 Star Topology and Beacon Enabled Operation 20
  • 2.3 Slotted CSMA-CA Medium Access 22
  • 2.4 Acknowledging Successful Transmissions 24
  • 2.5 Downlink Communication in Beacon Enabled Mode 25
  • 2.6 Guaranteed Time Slots 28
  • 2.7 Peer-to-Peer Topology and Non-Beacon Enabled Operation 29
  • 2.8 Device Functionality and Cluster Formation 31
  • 2.9 Format of the PHY and MAC frames 35
  • Part II Single-Cluster Networks 39
  • 3 Cluster with Uplink Traffic 41
  • 3.1 The System Model - Preliminaries 41
  • 3.2 Superframe with an Active Period Only 44
  • 3.3 Superframe with Both Active and Inactive Periods 51
  • 3.4 Probability Distribution of the Packet Service Time 57
  • 3.5 Probability Distribution of the Queue Length 59
  • 3.6 Access Delay 61
  • 3.7 Performance Results 65
  • 4 Cluster with Uplink and Downlink Traffic 71
  • 4.1 The System Model 71
  • 4.2 Modeling the Behavior of the Medium 84
  • 4.3 Probability Distribution for the Packet Service Time 86
  • 4.4 Performance of the Cluster with Bidirectional Traffic 91
  • 5 MAC Layer Performance Limitations 95
  • 5.1 Congestion of Packets Deferred to the Next Superframe 95
  • 5.2 Congestion after the Inactive Period 98
  • 5.3 Congestion of Uplink Data Requests 99
  • 5.4 Blocking of Uplink Data and Data Requests 100
  • 5.5 Possible Remedies 102
  • 6 Activity Management through Bernoulli Scheduling 111
  • 6.1 The Need for Activity Management 111
  • 6.2 Analysis of Activity Management 112
  • 6.3 Analysis of the Impact of MAC and PHY Layers 116
  • 6.4 Controlling the Event Sensing Reliability 121
  • 6.5 Activity Management Policy 123
  • 7 Admission Control Issues 131
  • 7.1 The Need for Admission Control 131
  • 7.2 Performance under Asymmetric Packet Arrival Rates 133
  • 7.3 Calculating the Admission Condition 135
  • 7.4 Performance of Admission Control 139
  • Part II Summary and Further Reading 143
  • Part III Multi-cluster Networks 145
  • 8 Cluster Interconnection with Master-Slave Bridges 147
  • 8.1 Analysis of Bridge Operation 149
  • 8.2 Markov Chain Model for a Single Node 158
  • 8.3 Performance of the Network 165
  • 8.4 Network with a Single Source Cluster/Bridge 166
  • 8.5 Network with Two Source Clusters/Bridges 173
  • 8.6 Modeling the Transmission Medium and Packet Service Times 179
  • 9 Equalization of Cluster Lifetimes 187
  • 9.1 Modeling the Clusters 187
  • 9.2 Distributed Activity Management 190
  • 9.3 Energy Consumption in Interconnected Clusters 194
  • 9.4 Performance of Activity Management 198
  • 10 Cluster Interconnection with Slave-Slave Bridges 203
  • 10.1 Operation of the SS Bridge 205
  • 10.2 Markov Chain Model for the SS Bridge 217
  • 10.3 Markov Chain for Non-Bridge Nodes 224
  • 10.4 Performance Evaluation 230
  • 10.5 To Acknowledge or Not To Acknowledge: The CSMA-CA Bridge 231
  • 10.6 Thou Shalt Not Acknowledge: The GTS Bridge 234
  • 10.7 Modeling the Transmission Medium and Packet Service Times 240
  • Part III Summary and Further Reading 251
  • Part IV Security 253
  • 11 Security in 802.15.4 Specification 255
  • 11.1 Security Services 256
  • 11.2 Auxiliary Security Header 257
  • 11.3 Securing and Unsecuring Frames 258
  • 11.4 Attacks 260
  • 12 The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing 265
  • 12.1 Analytical Model of a Generic Key Update Algorithm 267
  • 12.2 Analysis of the Node Buffer 273
  • 12.3 Success Probabilities 276
  • 12.4 Key Update in a Multi-Cluster Network 278
  • 12.5 Cluster Lifetime 280
  • 12.6 Evaluation of Lifetimes and Populations 283
  • Part IV Summary and Further Reading 287
  • Appendices 289
  • Appendix A An Overview of ZigBee 291
  • A.1 ZigBee Functionality 291
  • A.2 Device Roles 292
  • A.3 Network Topologies and Routing 293
  • A.4 Security 295
  • Appendix B Probability Generating Functions and Laplace Transforms 301

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