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Generation of controllable radio interference for protocol testing in wireless sensor networks

Conference paper (2009)

Authors

Carlo Alberto Boano University of Lübeck
Kay Römer University of Lübeck
Zhitao He Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Thiemo Voigt Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Marco Zuniga National University of Ireland Galway
Andreas Willig Technical University of Berlin
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WSN Interference generation Radio interference
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Published Date

2009

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English

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Abstract

Radio interference plays a central role for the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Interference not only leads to packet loss, but it also affects the function of MAC and routing protocols. Hitherto, testing the impact of interference on WSN experimentally has been difficult because of the unavailability of low-cost tools to create reproducible and well-controlled interference patterns. In this demo we present a simple and inexpensive method to generate controllable and repeatable interference patterns for 802.15.4 devices. The demo is presented as a game, where a user is required to achieve a given interference level.