This work is concerned with the design design full functional nodes and to evaluate an application in wireless sensor network. The resulting designed product could form a reliable support for transferring data between nodes and a computer. MaxStream XBee ZNet 2.5 modules are chosen as the radio platform and LabVIEW as the virtual instrument for user interface.

Un réseau de capteur sans fil est un ensemble de noeuds communicants, généralement miniatures et capables de fonctionner avec peu d'énergie. Certaines applications imposent à ces réseaux de capteurs sans fil d'être économes en énergie pour prolonger la durée de vie du réseau, d'autres nécessitent un comportement déterministe qui se traduit généralement par des délais de traversée du réseau bornés et/ou un taux de trames perdues inférieur à un seuil critique. Pour économiser significativement de l'énergie, une entité doit se mettre en mode sommeil. Durant cette période, elle sera inactive donc incapable de participer à l'ativité du réseau. L'usage de périodes de sommeil est un handicap pour l'aspect déterministe et pour le respect de contraintes temporelles. Le travail de cette thèse est centré sur les spécifications, le dévelopement et l'évaluation sous différentes formes d'une méthode d'accès au medium adaptée au déterminisme et aux exigences de qualité de service telles que l'absence de collisions et la garantie d'un délai borné de bout-en-bout, tout en conservant une faible consommation énergétique. La solution proposée repose sur la segmentation temporelle des activités, une synchronisation multi-sauts et une différentiation de services basée sur des stratégies de routage adaptées.

The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is an interesting technology for use in Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSN), where entire networks of sensors are carried by humans. In many environments the sensor nodes experience external interference for example, when the WBSN is operated in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and the human moves in a densely populated city, it will likely experience WiFi interference, with a quickly changing ``interference landscape''. In this thesis we propose Adaptive Resource Allocation schemes, to be carried out by the WBSN, which provided noticeable performance gains in such environments. We investigate a range of adaptation schemes and assess their performance both through simulations and experimentally.

Theme of the thesis is research and possibility of using GPS system from localization in wireless sensor network. Paper deals with the accuracy and energy consumption of GPS localization. Thesis also solve using of localization in local anchor system. Theoretical part describes IEEE 802.15.4 standard, capability of used nodes and describe ways how to use RSSI value to resolve location

Im Internet der Zukunft werden Menschen nicht nur mit Menschen, sondern auch mit „Dingen“, und sogar „Dinge“ mit „Dingen“ kommunizieren. Zusätzlich wird das Bedürfnis steigen, immer und überall Zugang zum Internet zu haben. Folglich gewinnen drahtlose Sensornetze (WSNs) und drahtlose Mesh-Netze (WMNs) an Bedeutung, da sie Daten über die Umwelt ins Internet liefern, beziehungsweise einfache Internet-Zugangsmöglichkeiten schaffen. In den vier Teilen dieser Arbeit werden unterschiedliche Modellierungs- und Optimierungsmethoden für WSNs und WMNs vorgestellt. Der Energieverbrauch ist die wichtigste Metrik, wenn es darum geht die Kommunikation in einem WSN zu optimieren. Da sich in der Literatur sehr viele unterschiedliche Energiemodelle finden, untersucht der erste Teil der Arbeit welchen Einfluss unterschiedliche Energiemodelle auf die Optimierung von WSNs haben. Aufbauend auf diesen Überlegungen beschäftigt sich der zweite Teil der Arbeit mit drei Problemen, die überwunden werden müssen um eine standardisierte energieeffiziente Kommunikations-Lösung für WSNs basierend auf IEEE 802.15.4 und ZigBee zu realisieren. Für WMNs sind beide Probleme von geringem Interesse, die Leistung des Netzes jedoch umso mehr. Der dritte Teil der Arbeit führt daher Algorithmen für die Berechnung des Max-Min fairen (MMF) Netzwerk-Durchsatzes in WMNs mit mehreren Linkraten und Internet-Gateways ein. Der letzte Teil der Arbeit untersucht die Auswirkungen des LRA-Konzeptes. Dessen grundlegende Idee ist die folgende. Falls für einen Link eine niedrigere Datenrate als theoretisch möglich verwendet wird, sinkt zwar der Link-Durchsatz, jedoch ist unter Umständen eine größere Anzahl von gleichzeitigen Übertragungen möglich und der Gesamt-Durchsatz des Netzes kann sich erhöhen. Mithilfe einer analytischen LRA Formulierung und einer systematischen Studie kann gezeigt werden, dass eine netzwerkweite Zuordnung robusterer Datenraten als nötig zu einer Erhöhung des MMF Netzwerk-Durchsatzes führt. Desweitern kann gezeigt werden, dass sich LRA positiv auf die Leistungsfähigkeit eines IEEE 802.11 WMNs auswirkt und für die Optimierung des Netzes genutzt werden kann. / In the future Internet, the people-centric communication paradigm will be complemented by a ubiquitous communication among people and devices, or even a communication between devices. This comes along with the need for a more flexible, cheap, widely available Internet access. Two types of wireless networks are considered most appropriate for attaining those goals. While wireless sensor networks (WSNs) enhance the Internet’s reach by providing data about the properties of the environment, wireless mesh networks (WMNs) extend the Internet access possibilities beyond the wired backbone. This monograph contains four chapters which present modeling and optimization methods for WSNs and WMNs. Minimizing energy consumptions is the most important goal of WSN optimization and the literature consequently provides countless energy consumption models. The first part of the monograph studies to what extent the used energy consumption model influences the outcome of analytical WSN optimizations. These considerations enable the second contribution, namely overcoming the problems on the way to a standardized energy-efficient WSN communication stack based on IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee. For WMNs both problems are of minor interest whereas the network performance has a higher weight. The third part of the work, therefore, presents algorithms for calculating the max-min fair network throughput in WMNs with multiple link rates and Internet gateway. The last contribution of the monograph investigates the impact of the LRA concept which proposes to systematically assign more robust link rates than actually necessary, thereby allowing to exploit the trade-off between spatial reuse and per-link throughput. A systematical study shows that a network-wide slightly more conservative LRA than necessary increases the throughput of a WMN where max-min fairness is guaranteed. It moreover turns out that LRA is suitable for increasing the performance of a contention-based WMN and is a valuable optimization tool.

The increasing number of IoT devices used in today’s society has led to a demand for better security in order to prevent attackers from gaining access to private information. The IoT brings a wide application scope and because of that there are a lot of ways to set up a secure network and manage keys in these kinds of networks. This paper presents a comparison between the security model in Zigbee and the new recommended practice for Key Management Protocols defined by the IEEE 802.15.9 standard. We investigate key establishment and transportation together with the vulnerabilities that this might bring regarding potential attacks like DoS and MitM. Since these protocols are built on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, experimental tests have been made where we analyze the throughput, RTT and packet loss over varied distances and we try to determine the maximum transmission range for devices using IEEE 802.15.4 modules. The IEEE 802.15.9 standard works with different KMPs and depending on the KMP being used we can see both similarities and differences regarding key management and possible attacks when comparing it to ZigBee. Furthermore, we found that attacks on a ZigBee device is more likely to compromise the whole network while similar attacks would only affect the specific peers in an IEEE 802.15.9 communication. Based on the experiments we find that open areas, distance and interference have a negative effect on the throughput, RTT and packet loss of the communication.

Trådlös kommunikation mellan noder sker genom att skicka data över det trådlösa mediet, för att få kommunikationen att samspela har flertalet standarder utvecklats. En av dessa standarder är 802.15.4 med UWB PHY vars utformning är av en sådan karaktär att signalöverföringen blir störningstålig och osynlig för andra standarder. UWB används ofta till lokalisering och positionering, men kan även användas till en samtida dataöverföring då standardens utformning tillåter detta. Det var dock oklart med vilken prestanda detta kunde genomföras. Därför har den datakommunikationsprestandan undersöks. Den hypotes som följdes under arbetet var att ''genom att skicka data mellan positioneringsimpulserna möjliggörs användandet av samma enhet för positionering och datakommunikation, systemets prestanda påverkas då av MAC-metoden''. Ur hypotesen kom det tre frågeställningar: Vilken MAC-metod är lämplig för både positionering och dataöverföring? Är det möjligt att använda systemet för både positionering och dataöverföring genom att skicka data mellan positioneringsimpulserna? Vilken kommunikationsprestanda kan uppnås när systemet används för både postionering och dataöverföring? I arbetet bevisas hypotesen samt frågeställningarna med syftet att detta kunde komma att hjälpa till inom exempelvis robotiken, men även som ett alternativ till WiFi då UWB är både störningståligt och osynligt för andra standarder. Den iterativa metoden användes för att utveckla ett system som kunde lösa den kombinerade positioneringen och datakommunikationen. I prestandatesterna gick det att utläsa att hypotesen stämde förutsatt att parametrarna är korrekt. / Wireless communication between nodes is achieved by sending data over the wireless medium. In order to have communications interact different standards have been developed. One such standard is 802.15.4 with UWB PHY, designed such that the signal transmission becomes interference-resistant and invisible to other standards. UWB is often used for location and positioning, but the standard design also allows for a contemporary data transfer. However, it was unclear with what performance this could be implemented. Therefore, the data communication performance has been investigated. The hypothesis that was followed during the work posits that ''by sending data between the positioning pulses, the use of the same unit for positioning and data communication is made possible, and that the system's performance is then affected by the MAC method.'' Three questions arose from this hypothesis. Which MAC method is suitable for both positioning and data transfer? Is it possible to use the system for both positioning and data transmission by sending data between the positioning pulses? What communication performance can be achieved when the system is used for both positioning and data transfer? In this work the hypothesis and the research questions are verified with the intended purpose that it could be of help in the field of robotics and also as an alternative to WiFi, due to UWBs robustness and invisibility characteristics. An iterative process has been utilized throughout this work to build a system which could solve the combined positioning and data communication. In the following performance tests the hypothesis is verified, provided that the parameters used are correct.

Com o aumento das aplicações e dispositivos para Internet das Coisas, muitos esforços para reduzir potência dissipada nos transceptores foram investidos. A maioria deles, entretanto, focam individualmente no rádio, nos conversores analógicos para digital e viceversa, e na arquitetura de banda base digital. Como consequência, há pouca margem para melhorias na potência dissipada nestes blocos isolados que compense o enorme esforço. Portanto, este trabalho propõe uma arquitetura adaptativa a nível de sistema focando em reduzir o consumo no conversor analógico para digital e no receptor digital. Ele utiliza um algoritmo robusto para o receptor banda base digital, um conversor analógico para digital topologia Sigma-Delta e um bloco de controle realimentado conforme a relação sinal ruído medida do pacote recebido. O sistema foi projetado para o protocolo IEEE 802.15.4. Para validação do sistema e estimar a potência consumida foi feito um modelo de sistema utilizando a ferramenta Matlab, uma descrição do hardware em linguagem Verilog e uma síntese lógica utilizando o processo da X-FAB XC018. As simulações mostram uma redução na potência consumida pelo sistema de até 13% e ainda atingindo os requisitos do protocolo. Os resultados deste trabalho foram publicados na conferência internacional em tecnologia de instrumentação e medidas de 2014 realizada na cidade de Montevidéu no Uruguai. / With the increase of Internet of Things applications and devices, many efforts to reduce power consumption in transceiver has been invested. Most of them targeted in RF frontend, converters, or in the digital baseband architecture individually. As result, there are few margins nowadays for power improvement in these blocks singly that compensates the huge hard work required. The next optimization step leads to a system level analysis seeking design space and new possibilities expansion. It is in this field that adaptive systems approaches are conquering ground recently. The solutions combines Radio Frequency (RF) and process variation techniques, Low Pass Filters (LPF) and Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) adjustment for better performance, digital baseband bit width adaptive according to income packet SNR, configurable ADC resolution and topology, and others. In this scenario the current work proposes an adaptive system level architecture targeting ADC and digital receiver power reduction. It uses a robust algorithm for digital baseband receiver, a Sigma-Delta ADC, and suggests a feedback control block based on packet SNR measure. The system was designed for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and required system modeling using Matlab tool, hardware description in Verilog language, and logic synthesis using X-FAB XC018 process for validation and power consumption estimation. Simulations show up to 15% of system power reduction and still meeting the standard requirements. The work results were published in the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference of 2014 occurred in Montevideo - Uruguay.

Tese de mestrado. Redes e Serviços de Comunicação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto, Instituto Superior de Engenharia. 2007

Le cadre de cette thèse est l'étude des systèmes contrôlés en réseau sans fil (SCRSF) qui utilise la technologie IEEE 802.15.4. Le premier objectif est d'étudier la pertinance de l'utilisation du réseau de type IEEE 802.15.4 pour les SCRSF puis de proposer et d'évaluer des mécanismes pour garantir la Qualité de Service (QdS) offerte par le réseau au système contrôlé. Nous analysons l'utilisation des slots temporels réservés (GTS) dans le cadre des SCRSF et les contraintes qui en découlent. De plus, nous proposons des mécanismes de gestion de la QdS avec priorité aussi bien pour le mode avec balise que pour le mode sans balise du protocole IEEE 802.15.4. Ces propositions ont été validées par des simulations et une partie de manière analytique. Notre deuxième objectif est de concevoir, d'une manière conjointe, les SCRSF pour pouvoir régler en ligne la QdS offerte par le réseau en fonction de la Qualité de Contrôle (QdC) du système contrôlé. Nous proposons des protocoles d'adaptation en ligne de la QdS du réseau qui prennent en compte la QdC du système contrôlé. Ces protocoles ont été validés par simulations et une implémentation réelle de chacun d'eux est proposée.