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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Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ :
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Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : c2008 Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : [2008] |
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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