Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:25:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Everton Dias de Oliveira.pdf: 3326034 bytes, checksum: 1cbd1cf1a33f81db24d9e630a5cddb94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-14 / This paper presents the development of a system for monitoring surfasse temperature and air temperature in buildings in urban areas, using wireless data transmission with the IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 standards. This monitoring system includes the development of low sensors that can monitor the temperature of non-destructively, i.e. without the need to reform the building. Deals with the analysis of the use of wireless transmission networks with the IEEE 802.11 standard and the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, as a possible solution for temperature monitoring in buildings using wireless networks. Discusses the development of a technological application capable of performing the monitoring of the air temperature and surface buildings using standard wireless networks IEEE 802.15.4. It also presents a solution for temperature monitoring in intelligent buildings, using the IEEE 802.11 standard. / O presente trabalho apresenta, o desenvolvimento de um sistema para o monitoramento da temperatura de superf?cie e da temperatura do ar em edifica??es no meio urbano, utilizando transmiss?o de dados sem fio com os padr?es IEEE 802.11 e IEEE 802.15.4. Esse sistema de monitoramento compreende o desenvolvimento de sensores de baixo que possam monitorar a temperatura de forma n?o destrutiva, ou seja, sem a necessidade de reformas na edifica??o. Trata da an?lise da utiliza??o das redes de transmiss?o sem fio com o padr?o IEEE 802.11 e com o padr?o IEEE 802.15.4, como possibilidade de solu??o para o monitoramento da temperatura em edifica??es usando redes sem fio. Discorre sobre o desenvolvimento de uma aplica??o tecnol?gica capaz de realizar o monitoramento da temperatura do ar e de superf?cie em edifica??es usando redes sem fio padr?o IEEE 802.15.4. E tamb?m apresenta uma solu??o para o monitoramento da temperatura em edif?cios inteligentes, utilizando o padr?o IEEE 802.11.

Este trabalho propõe estratégias de roteamento e de controle de acesso ao meio destinadas as redes urbanas, motivadas pelo monitoramento e controle de variáveis elétricas relacionadas à iluminação pública. Tais estratégias foram desenvolvidas segundo requisitos da aplicação, trabalhos encontrados na literatura, limitações do protocolo IEEE 802.15.4 e as especificações RFC 5548 e IEEE 802.15.4e (draft). As estratégias desenvolvidas foram incorporadas a protocolos encontrados na literatura, as quais geraram protocolos aperfeiçoados para redes urbanas, dentre eles GGPSR e gradiente em função da maior distância, utilizados para o tráfego divergente e convergente, respectivamente. O protocolo GGPSR é composto pelo algoritmo geográfico GPSR, geocast e retransmissões para os vizinhos seguindo o critério do GGPSR em caso de falha. O protocolo baseado na maior distância é composto pelo algoritmo do gradiente, o qual utiliza a maior distância no caso de receptores com pesos de gradiente iguais e retransmissões seguindo o mesmo critério. Foi utilizado um modelo de propagação realista, no qual foi aplicada a estratégia de mapeamento de vizinhos dos nós de acordo com a distância aproximada fornecida pelo atributo do pacote RSSI. Além disso, para ambos os tipos de tráfego, foi aplicado o mecanismo de controle de acesso ao meio RIT com o objetivo de minimizar o consumo energético. A avaliação dos protocolos gerados a partir dessas estratégias foi feita em simulação utilizando a ferramenta NS-2 integrada em cenários de grande escala fornecidos pela concessionária de iluminação pública Elektro, segundo os critérios de energia remascente da rede, média de atraso fim a fim e taxa de entrega fim a fim. Os resultados obtidos mostram que os protocolos gerados superam protocolos propostos na literatura; além disso, a estratégia baseada na distância obtida pelo atributo RSSI viabiliza a aplicação do protocolo GGPSR. Em relação à aplicação do RIT com a estratégia de parâmetros em função do gradiente, esta se mostrou mais eficiente em comparação com os parâmetros de RIT iguais para todos os nós. / This work proposes routing and medium access control strategies for urban networks, particularly related to monitoring and control of electric variables in the street lighting system. Such strategies were developed according to application requirements, studies in the literature, limitations of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, and RFC 5548 and IEEE 802.15.4e (draft) specifications. Strategies were incorporated into protocols found in the literature, which generated specific improved protocols for urban networks, including GGPSR and Gradient based on the farthest neighbor, applied to divergent and convergent traffic, respectively. The GGPSR protocol is composed by the GPSR algorithm, geocast and retransmissions to neighbors according to the GGPSR criterion when a failure occurs. The protocol based on the longest distance comprises the gradient algorithm, which considers the longest distance when receivers have equal gradient weights and retransmissions follow the same criterion. A realistic propagation model was used, implementing the strategy to map neighboring nodes according to the approximate distance provided by the RSSI packet attribute. Moreover, for both traffic ypes, the RIT medium access control mechanism was used in order to minimize energy consumption. Protocols generated by these strategies were evaluated through simulation in NS-2 tool applied to large scale scenarios provided by public street lighting concessionaire Elektro, according to the criteria of remaining energy network, end-to-end average delay and end-to-end delivery rate. Results show that the generated protocols outperform protocols proposed in the literature; in addition, the strategy based on the distance obtained by the RSSI attribute enables the use of the GGPSR protocol. Regarding the use of RIT considering the parameters as a function of the gradient, this strategy is more efficient compared to using the same RIT parameters for all nodes.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de développer un réseau IPv6 constitué de capteurs sans fils autonomes grâce à la récupération d’énergie, fonctionnant à faible rapport cyclique. Cette thèse s’inscrit dans un projet industriel, GreenNet, lancé par STMicroelectronics afin de se positionner sur le marché de l’Internet des Objets. La nouvelle plate-forme utilisée dans ce projet se différencie de ses concurrents par sa petite taille, ce qui implique une faible capacité de batterie. Une cellule photovoltaı̈que permet en revanche de recharger la batterie, y compris dans des conditions de luminosité faible. Pour atteindre l’autonomie, nous avons besoin que les nœuds dorment pour de très longues périodes. Par conséquent, les solutions existantes, bien que peu consommantes, ne sont pas complètement adaptées à nos besoins spécifiques.Dans cette thèse, nous proposons d’analyser les difficultés possiblement rencontrées pendant le développement d’une plate-forme à récupération d’énergie et de bas rapport cyclique. La contribution la plus importante de ce travail est de mettre en œuvre et d’évaluer le rendement de nos solutions sur des plates-formes matérielles dans des conditions très proches de la vie réelle.Une première étape du travail réalisée est la conception et l’implémentation de la norme IEEE 802.15.4 utilisant les balises pour maintenir la synchronisation. Nous choisissons le mode synchronisé car il permet aux nœuds d’atteindre des rapports cycliques aussi bas que 0,01%. La seconde étape est d’apporter le multi saut : nous proposons une optimisation du protocole de routage, ainsi qu’un contrôle d’accès par multiplexagetemporel pour les routeurs et les dispositifs afin d’éliminer les interférences.Nous allons même plus loin dans l’optimisation du temps où les nœuds sont allumés: nous proposons d’éteindre les coordinateurs avant la fin de leur période d’activité définie par le standard, lorsqu’il n’y a pas de communications. Les nœuds qui ne nécessitent pas d’envoyer des données peuvent sauter des balises et se réveiller seulement lorsqu’il est nécessaire de synchroniser les horloges, ou d’envoyer des données. Dans le même temps, nous résolvons le problème de multicast pour les nœuds qui dorment durant de longues périodes, en convertissant ces paquets en paquets unicast. Nous améliorons également le rapport cyclique de routeurs qui n’ont pas de nœuds associés en les forçant envoyer la balise moins souvent, tant qu’ils n’ont pas des nœuds associés.Pour améliorer la performance du réseau, nous proposons aussi une solution rétro compatible qui utilise plusieurs canaux. Un tel système est utile quand un lien entre deux nœuds subit de très mauvaise performance sur un certain canal fréquentiel, mais obtient de meilleurs résultats sur une fréquence différente.Toutes les solutions présentées ci-dessus, et discutées dans la dissertation ont été mises en œuvre et testées sur la plate-forme GreenNet. Nous avons également réalisé des mesures sur des nœuds pour vérifier leurs efficacité. / The goal of the thesis is to enable IPv6 harvested and autonomous wireless sensor networks with very low duty-cycle. It is part of an industrial project, GreenNet, hosted by STMicroelectronics with the goal of being a pioneer in the Internet of Things. The new platform differentiates from its existing competitors by a small size, which implies small battery capacity. However, a photovoltaic cell is capable of recharging the battery even under low light conditions. On top of this, we aim at nodes that sleep for very long periods. Hence, the existing solutions were not completely suited for ourneeds.The thesis proposes to analyze the possible challenges that one can meet while developing a harvested low-duty cycle platform. The most important contribution of this work is that we implement and evaluate the performance of our solutions on real hardware platforms in conditions very close to real-life.In this dissertation, we first of all develop and implement a basic solution based on the IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled standard. We choose the synchronized mode because it allows nodes to reach duty-cycles as low as 0.01%. A more difficult step was to bring multi-hop: we design new a routing scheme inside our network, and a time based access for routers and devices to eliminate interferences as much as possible. The routing scheme is meant to be simple and efficient.We go even further to optimize the total time the nodes are on: we proposed to shut down coordinators before their standardized end of slot when there is no communication. Devices that do not need to send data can skip beacons and only need to wake up to synchronize their clock or to send data. In the same time we solve the problem of multicast for long sleeping nodes by converting these packets into unicast traffic. We also improved the duty-cycle of routers that do no have associated devices by forcing them to beacon slower, as long as they do not have any associated devices.To improve the network performance we also propose a backward compatible multichannel solution. Such a scheme is useful when a link between two nodes achieve very bad performance on a certain channel but better results on a different frequency.All the solutions presented above and discussed in the dissertation were implemented and tested on the GreenNet platform. We also realized measurements of the nodes efficiency while in harvested conditions and showed that it is possible to handle harvested routers, when there is enough available light.

Les besoins de nouveaux services dans les rames ferroviaires ( le comptage, l’efficience énergétique, le confort et la sécurité des passagers etc.), risquent de saturer à terme les systèmes de communication filaires mis en place il y a une vingtaine d’années. Les réseaux de capteurs sans fil, par leurs avantages (déploiement facile, capacité à s’adapter à plusieurs types d’environnements, faible consommation d’énergie), ouvrent de nombreuses perspectives pour les systèmes de gestion énergétique. Le but de ce travail de thèse est d’étudier et mettre en oeuvre un réseau de capteurs sans fil à l’intérieur des trains pour l’efficience énergétique. Ainsi, quelques protocoles de communication dédiés à la gestion énergétique ont été présentés puis une étude comparative des différents réseaux de communication sans fil réalisée. Cette étude comparative a permis de faire le choix du réseau ZigBee comme étant le plus adéquat pour la plateforme. L’architecture hybride proposée permet l’utilisation du réseau IP existant comme colonne vertébrale de l’ensemble des réseaux ZigBee. Afin de tenir compte de l’effet de l’environnement ferroviaire dans la planification et le déploiement du réseau, une étude du canal de propagation, basée sur des mesures réalisées dans un métro et un wagon de RER a été menée. L’impact de la coexistence entre le ZigBee et le WiFi et de la présence humaine sur la communication du réseau sans fil a été démontré. Le prototype d’une plateforme basée sur le réseau ZigBee allant de la collecte des données à l’affichage des informations a été réalisé et testé. / The need of new services in railway trains (services for metering, energy efficiency, the comfort and safety of users etc.) may eventually saturate the wired communication systems installed since twenty years ago years. The several advantages of wireless sensor networks (easy deployment, ability to adapt on different environments and low energy consumption) offer many possibilities for energy management systems. The aim of this thesis is to study and implement a wireless network sensors inside trains for energy efficiency. Thus, some communication protocols dedicated to energy management were presented and then a comparative study of the various wireless communication networks carried out. This comparative study shows that the ZigBee network is the most suitable for the platform. The proposed hybrid architecture allows the use of the existing IP network as the backbone of all ZigBee networks. In order to take into account the effect of the railway environment in the planning and deployment of the network, a study of the propagation channel was carried out, based on measurements realized in a subway and a RER car. The impact of the coexistence between ZigBee and WiFi and of the human presence on wireless communication have been demonstrated. The prototype of a platform based on the ZigBee network, allows data collection, informations traitement and monitoring, was carried out.

Bevielio jutiklių tinklo valdymo protokolas. Baigiamasis magistro darbas elektronikos inžinerijos laipsniui. Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas. Vilnius, 2009, 63 p., 27 iliustr., 13 lent., 23 bibl., 3 priedų. Baigiamojo magistro darbo tikslas – sukurti ir ištirti energijos išteklius taupantį protokolą, skirtą jutiklių duomenims perduoti bevieliu būdu. Išanalizuoti skirtingų protokolo konfigūracijų ir funkcionalumo įtaką jutiklio veikimo laikui iš riboto energijos šaltinio. Protokolą sukurti pagal iš anksto užsibrėžtus kriterijus bendradarbiaujant su UAB „Teltonika“. Sukurtas bevielio jutiklių tinklo protokolas veikia IEEE 802.15.4 standarto pagrindu ir atitinka visas reikalaujamas specifikacijas. Jis pasižymi sparčiu naujų jutiklių tinkle tapatumo nustatymu, sumaniais energijos taupymo sprendimais, lanksčiu konfigūravimu, priklausomai nuo norimų charakteristikų ir funkcionalumo bei turi patogią programų sąsają. Dinaminis neveikos (angl. sleep) režimo laiko parinkimas leidžia jutikliams veikti iki 2 metų (esant tam tikromis sąlygomis ir ilgiau) iš ribotos energijos (1,5 Wh) maitinimo šaltinio. / Wireless sensors network protocol. Final Master Work of electronics engineering degree. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Vilnius, 2009, 63 p., 27 illustrations. 13 tables., 23 bibliographical sources, 3 appendixes. The main aim of this project is to create and explore low power, energy-efficient protocol for wireless sensors, to analyze the different protocol configurations and the impact on the sensor lifetime of different system functionality using limited energy power source. Protocol designed to meet specified technical criteria in cooperation with the "Teltonika" Inc. Wireless sensors network protocol is based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard and meets all required specifications. Main protocol advantages are: fast new sensor authentication, smart battery management solutions, flexible configuration, depending on the desired characteristics and functionality and a convenient software interface. Dynamic sleep mode time selection allows the sensors to operate for up to 2 years (and more, under certain conditions) from the limited energy (1.5 Wh) power source.

Este trabalho propõe estratégias de roteamento e de controle de acesso ao meio destinadas as redes urbanas, motivadas pelo monitoramento e controle de variáveis elétricas relacionadas à iluminação pública. Tais estratégias foram desenvolvidas segundo requisitos da aplicação, trabalhos encontrados na literatura, limitações do protocolo IEEE 802.15.4 e as especificações RFC 5548 e IEEE 802.15.4e (draft). As estratégias desenvolvidas foram incorporadas a protocolos encontrados na literatura, as quais geraram protocolos aperfeiçoados para redes urbanas, dentre eles GGPSR e gradiente em função da maior distância, utilizados para o tráfego divergente e convergente, respectivamente. O protocolo GGPSR é composto pelo algoritmo geográfico GPSR, geocast e retransmissões para os vizinhos seguindo o critério do GGPSR em caso de falha. O protocolo baseado na maior distância é composto pelo algoritmo do gradiente, o qual utiliza a maior distância no caso de receptores com pesos de gradiente iguais e retransmissões seguindo o mesmo critério. Foi utilizado um modelo de propagação realista, no qual foi aplicada a estratégia de mapeamento de vizinhos dos nós de acordo com a distância aproximada fornecida pelo atributo do pacote RSSI. Além disso, para ambos os tipos de tráfego, foi aplicado o mecanismo de controle de acesso ao meio RIT com o objetivo de minimizar o consumo energético. A avaliação dos protocolos gerados a partir dessas estratégias foi feita em simulação utilizando a ferramenta NS-2 integrada em cenários de grande escala fornecidos pela concessionária de iluminação pública Elektro, segundo os critérios de energia remascente da rede, média de atraso fim a fim e taxa de entrega fim a fim. Os resultados obtidos mostram que os protocolos gerados superam protocolos propostos na literatura; além disso, a estratégia baseada na distância obtida pelo atributo RSSI viabiliza a aplicação do protocolo GGPSR. Em relação à aplicação do RIT com a estratégia de parâmetros em função do gradiente, esta se mostrou mais eficiente em comparação com os parâmetros de RIT iguais para todos os nós. / This work proposes routing and medium access control strategies for urban networks, particularly related to monitoring and control of electric variables in the street lighting system. Such strategies were developed according to application requirements, studies in the literature, limitations of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, and RFC 5548 and IEEE 802.15.4e (draft) specifications. Strategies were incorporated into protocols found in the literature, which generated specific improved protocols for urban networks, including GGPSR and Gradient based on the farthest neighbor, applied to divergent and convergent traffic, respectively. The GGPSR protocol is composed by the GPSR algorithm, geocast and retransmissions to neighbors according to the GGPSR criterion when a failure occurs. The protocol based on the longest distance comprises the gradient algorithm, which considers the longest distance when receivers have equal gradient weights and retransmissions follow the same criterion. A realistic propagation model was used, implementing the strategy to map neighboring nodes according to the approximate distance provided by the RSSI packet attribute. Moreover, for both traffic ypes, the RIT medium access control mechanism was used in order to minimize energy consumption. Protocols generated by these strategies were evaluated through simulation in NS-2 tool applied to large scale scenarios provided by public street lighting concessionaire Elektro, according to the criteria of remaining energy network, end-to-end average delay and end-to-end delivery rate. Results show that the generated protocols outperform protocols proposed in the literature; in addition, the strategy based on the distance obtained by the RSSI attribute enables the use of the GGPSR protocol. Regarding the use of RIT considering the parameters as a function of the gradient, this strategy is more efficient compared to using the same RIT parameters for all nodes.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T17:38:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Teruko.pdf: 11607034 bytes, checksum: 72b3906b42ad639d1abd56a8054d9ffe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The wireless communication in the residential automation has became a very promising technology due to the easinesses in the installation, and for its flexibility, mobility and scalability. Inside this context, the objective of this work is to analyze and to implement two wireless communication standard protocols: Bluetooth and ZigBee. They are used to analyze theirs functionalities and applications under a domestic environment. Firstly, the Bluetooth protocol was used in order to verify its operation because this one is an already well known protocol. Secondly, the ZigBee protocol - IEEE 802.15.4 MAC was also tested due to its new protocol applied to small data communication and its low baud rate, star topozlogy and low energy consumption, which allows the control of householdelectric network. The project consisted of monitoring, controlling and configuring washing machines by using a wireless network through a remote virtual interface. The user interface of this system was done through a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), which allowed to change the times of washing programs manual or automatic mode. The results indicated the feasibility of monitoring and controlling household-electric by implementing the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Layer of ZigBee protocol. This implementing reached the main characteristics as described above. The maximum distance achieved in a star topology in the typical residence was 14 meters, without using routers. This distance can be increased implementing full ZigBee Protocol. Although the project was developed to washing machine, it also can be implemented to other household-electrics, such as: microwaves, heaters, air conditioners, refrigerators, etc. / A comunicação sem fio em automação residencial tem se tornado uma tecnologia muito promissora devido às facilidades na instalação, flexibilidade, mobilidade e escalabilidade. Dentro deste contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e implementar dois padrões de comunicação sem fio: Bluetooth e ZigBee, a fim de analisar suas funcionalidades e aplicações em ambiente doméstico. O protocolo Bluetooth por se tratar de um protocolo já consagrado no mercado, foi utilizado no controle remoto de uma máquina lavadora, como proposta inicial deste trabalho. Depois, o protocolo ZigBee - IEEE 802.15.4 MAC foi implementado, pois este padrão é um protocolo novo aplicado a comunicação com pequenos pacotes de dados, baixa taxa de transmissão, topologia estrela e baixo consumo de energia, que são características importantes para controle de uma rede de eletrodomésticos. O projeto consistiu em desenvolver um protótipo de hardware e de software para monitorar, controlar e parametrizar máquinas lavadoras de roupas numa rede sem fio através de uma interface virtual remota. Esta interface do usuário com a rede foi feita através de um PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) que permitiu alterar os tempos de programação da máquina no modo manual ou automático. Os resultados mostraram a viabilidade de se construir uma rede de eletrodomésticos, implementando a camada de enlace IEEE 802.15.4MAC do protocolo de comunicação ZigBee. Esta implementação atingiu as principais características descritas acima. A distância máxima alcançada na topologia estrela numa residência típica foi de 14 metros, sem o uso de roteadores. Esta distância poderá ser aumentada através da implementação da camada de rede ZigBee. Embora o projeto tenha sido desenvolvido utilizando máquinas lavadoras, pode-se estendêlo a outros eletrodomésticos tais como: fornos de microondas, aquecedores, condicionadores de ar, refrigeradores, etc.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeDMO.pdf: 2614728 bytes, checksum: fd69e303891800912ab5260562a5545d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-13 / This dissertation aims to develop a software applied to a communication system for a wireless sensor network (WSN) for tracking analog and digital variables and control valve of the gas flow in artificial oil s elevation units, Plunger Lift type. The reason for this implementation is due to the fact that, in the studied plant configuration, the sensors communicate with the PLC (Programmable and Logic Controller) by the cables and pipelines, making any changes in that system, such as changing the layout of it, as well as inconveniences that arise from the nature of the site, such as the vicinity s animals presence that tend to destroy the cables for interconnection of sensors to the PLC. For software development, was used communication polling method via SMAC protocol (Simple Medium Access ControlIEEE 802.15.4 standard) in the CodeWarrior environment to which generated a firmware, loaded into the WSN s transceivers, present in the kit MC13193-EVK, (all items described above are owners of Freescale Semiconductors Inc.). The network monitoring and parameterization used in its application, was developed in LabVIEW software from National Instruments. The results were obtained through the observation of the network s behavior of sensors proposal, focusing on aspects such as: indoor and outdoor quantity of packages received and lost, general aspects of reliability in data transmission, coexistence with other types of wireless networks and power consumption under different operating conditions. The results were considered satisfactory, which showed the software efficiency in this communication system / Este trabalho tem por finalidade desenvolver um software aplicado a um sistema de comunica??o de uma rede de sensores sem fio (RSSF), para monitoramento de vari?veis anal?gicas, digitais e comando de v?lvulas de passagem do fluxo de g?s em unidades de eleva??o artificial de petr?leo e g?s natural do tipo Plunger Lift. A raz?o desta implementa??o deve-se ao fato que, na configura??o da planta estudada, os sensores comunicam-se com o CLP (Controlador L?gico Program?vel) atrav?s de cabos e dutos, dificultando eventuais modifica??es nesse sistema, tais como mudan?a de layout do mesmo, al?m de inconveni?ncias que venham a surgir da pr?pria natureza do local, como a presen?a de animais nas redondezas que tendem a destruir os cabos de interconex?o dos sensores ao CLP. Para o desenvolvimento do software, foi utilizado o m?todo de comunica??o polling, atrav?s do protocolo SMAC (Simple Medium Access Control - padr?o IEEE 802.15.4), no ambiente CodeWarrior, ao qual gerou um firmware, carregado nas placas de monitoramento da RSSF, presentes no kit MC13193-EVK, (todos os itens descritos acima s?o propriet?rios da Freescale Semiconductors Inc.). O monitoramento e parametriza??o da rede utilizou uma aplica??o, desenvolvida no software LabVIEW, da National Instruments. Os resultados foram obtidos atrav?s da observa??o do comportamento da rede de sensores proposta, focando aspectos, tais como: quantidade de pacotes recebidos e perdidos em ambientes externos (Outdoor) e internos (Indoor), aspectos gerais de confiabilidade na transmiss?o dos dados, coexist?ncia entre outros tipos de redes sem fio e consumo de energia sob diferentes condi??es de opera??o. Os resultados obtidos foram considerados satisfat?rios, o que comprovou a efici?ncia do software neste sistema de comunica??o

Le monde des réseaux de capteurs sans fil ‘RCSF’ a connu de grands progrès au cours de ces dernières années. Ainsi, les RCSF ont pu intégrer divers champs d’application (environnement, militaire, médecine, domotique ...) dont quelques-uns ayant des exigences en termes de qualité de service ‘QdS’. Cependant, la garantie de la QdS dans un RCSF pose des problèmes de recherche non triviaux, à cause de la nature peu fiable de la communication sans fil et des limitations des ressources des nœuds RCSF (processeur, mémoire, énergie ...). Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous nous sommes focalisés sur les protocoles MAC afin d’améliorer le support de QdS dans les RCSF. Plus particulièrement, le standard IEEE 802.15.4. Les mécanismes de conservation d’énergie proposés par ce standard sont efficaces et présentent une flexibilité par rapport aux besoins des applications. Néanmoins, le temps de sommeil des nœuds affecte considérablement le délai de communication, donnant naissance à un compromis énergie/délai. Pour résoudre ce problème, nous avons amélioré ce standard pour un meilleur support des applications temps-réel. L’approche proposée permet de réduire le délai de communication de manière significative, même pour de faibles rapports cycliques, grâce au nouveau format de la supertrame. Les performances ont été validées par simulation et sur des plateformes de nœuds RCSF réelles. Nous avons proposé également un modèle de simulation pour le standard IEEE 802.15.4 sous le simulateur NS-3. / In the last years, Wireless Sensor Networks ‘WSN’ knew a tremendous evolution which attracted many applications. WSN has several characteristics that make it a unique research field, such as, WSN nodes’ constraints and the unreliable (lossy) wireless communication. The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is the first standard designed for this type of networks known as LR-WPANs ‘Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network’. The energy conservation mechanism proposed by the current standard is quite efficient and very flexible. This flexibility comes from the ability to configure different duty cycles to meet specific applications’ requirements. However, this mechanism has a considerable impact on the end-to-end delay. Our approach resolves the energy/delay trade-off by avoiding the storage of the real-time data in the coordinator during sleep time, more particularly in Multi-source Multi-sink networks. A new superframe structure is adopted and a deterministic reception scheduling is used. In this thesis, we also proposed a new WPAN model for the Network Simulator 3 ‘NS-3’.

Le nombre croissant d'applications des Réseaux de Capteurs Sans Fils (RCSFs) a conduit les industriels à concevoir ces réseaux avec une couche Physique (PHY) suivant le standard IEEE 802.15.4. Actuellement, cette couche est implémentée en matériel souffrant d'un manque de flexibilité du changement des paramètres radio, telles que bandes de fréquences et modulations. Ce problème est accentué par la rareté du spectre radio fréquences. La Radio Logiciel (RL) est une nouvelle solution pour reconfigurer plus facilement ces paramètres. A partir d'une RL, il est possible de développer une radio cognitive permettant une écoute de spectre et un Accès Dynamique au Spectre (ADS). Ces deux possibilités sont utiles pour surmonter le problème de la rareté du spectre. Cette thèse propose une nouvelle solution Radio logicielle pour un RCSF basé sur le standard IEEE 802.15.4. Notre objectif est de caractériser une plate-forme RL qui implémente à la fois deux couches PHY standardisées et une radio cognitive pour des RCSFs. Dans cette thèse, nous avons réalisé des implémentations RL en utilisant une plateforme composée de la solution Universal Software Peripheral Radio (USRP) d'Ettus Research et de GNU Radio. Nous avons choisi cette plateforme particulière puisqu'elle est parmi les outils les plus performants et les plus pratiques d'après notre état de l'art. Une étude minutieuse a été effectuée pour analyser l'architecture logicielle de la GNU Radio avant son utilisation. Des USRPs avec leurs cartes filles ont été aussi analysés à travers des mesures expérimentales radio fréquences. L'analyse de cette plate-forme a apporté une description détaillée de son architecture et de ses performances. Nous avons prouvé que les performances mesurées sont plus faibles que ceux attendus pour certaines cartes filles d'USRP. Malgré ces résultats, certaines cartes ont de nombreuses caractéristiques intéressantes, comme de grandes bandes de fréquences couvertes et une puissance de sortie linéaire. Un modèle empirique a été introduit pour caractériser avec précision la puissance de sortie moyenne d'une carte fille particulière. Nous avons ensuite implémenté une nouvelle couche PHY standardisée pour la bande de fréquence 868/915 MHz basée sur le standard 802.15.4. Un processus de rétro-ingénierie d'une autre implémentation développée pour la bande 2.4GHz a été effectué. Ces deux couches ont été décrites par des chaines de communications ou des graphes de flux. Nous avons finalement proposé une nouvelle radio cognitive par une reconfiguration de ces graphes de flux dans les deux bandes de fréquences correspondantes. La particularité de notre radio cognitive est de reconfigurer les graphes de flux en fonction de la fréquence sélectionnée. Cette sélection est effectuée par un ADS et une écoute de spectre basé sur une détection d'énergie, validés tous les deux au travers des réelles communications sans fil. Nous avons introduit un algorithme à base de messages afin de reconfigurer les graphes de flux et de synchroniser la sélection sur une fréquence porteuse. Les deux couches physiques en RL pour les bandes 2.4 GHz et 868/915 MHz ont été testées et sont fonctionnelles. La première a été testée en échangeant des paquets de données avec des nœuds capteurs réels. La deuxième a été expérimentée par l'échange de paquets, à travers une communication entre deux radios logicielles USRP/GNU Radio. Nous avons réussi à mesurer deux paramètres réels d'une communication sans fil : le taux d'erreur binaire et le taux de succès des paquets. Les couches PHY résultantes ont servi à la réalisation et à l'expérimentation d'un ADS de notre radio cognitive. Un ADS a amélioré significativement le taux de succès de paquets par rapport à celui obtenu avec un accès statique dans un environnement indoor. Les résultats de cette thèse conduisent à expérimenter une radio cognitive avec une RL non seulement pour un RCSF, mais pour d'autres réseaux sans fil et standards radio / The Increasing number of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications has led industries to design the physical layer (PHY) of these networks following the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The traditional design of that layer is on hardware suffering from a lack of flexibility of radio parameters, such as changing both frequency bands and modulations. This problem is emphasized by the scarcity of the radio-frequency spectrum. Software Defined Radio (SDR) is an attracting solution to easily reconfigure radio parameters. In addition to SDR, a cognitive radio concept can be proposed by spectrum sensing and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) both to overcome the spectrum scarcity problem. This thesis proposes a new SDR solution for WSNs based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Our aim is to characterize an SDR platform that implements two standardized PHY layers and cognitive radio for WSNs. In this thesis, we carried out SDR implementations using a GNU Radio and Universal Software Peripheral Radio (USRP) platform. We chose this particular platform because it is one of the most practical and well-performed ones. A thorough study was performed to analyze GNU Radio software architecture before its usage. USRPs and their daughter boards were also analyzed through experimental radio-frequency measurements. The analysis of the GNU Radio USRP platform brought a detailed description of its architecture and performances as well as the way to implement an SDR. This description particularly assists researchers to quickly develop efficient SDR receivers and transmitters. We show through our experiments that the measured performances of daughter boards mounted on a USRP are lower than expected ones. Despite these results, some daughter boards have many interesting features such as large covered frequency bands and with a linear output power. An empirical model was introduced to accurately characterize the average output power of a particular daughter board. Then, we implemented a new possible standardized PHY layer for the 868/915 MHz frequency band. A reverse engineering process of another implementation was performed for the 2450 MHz frequency band. These two PHY layers were described by communication chains or flow graphs. We suggested a new Cognitive Radio by a reconfiguration of these flow graphs within the corresponding frequency bands. The particularity of our cognitive radio is to reconfigure flow graphs in function to the selected frequency. This selection is performed by DSA and spectrum sensing based on energy detection both through real wireless communications. We introduced a message based algorithm in order to reconfigure the flow graphs and to synchronize the selection of a carrier frequency. Our two implemented PHY layers for the 2450 MHz and the 868/915 frequency bands were found functional. The first one was tested by exchanging data packets with real sensor nodes. The second was also experienced by a packet exchange, but via GNURadio/USRP communications. Both tests were carried out through real communications. We were also able to measure two wireless communication parameters: Bit Error Rate (BER) and the Packet Success Rate (PSR). The result of functional PHY layers was beneficial for realization and experiments of our cognitive radio. We found that our DSA significantly improves the packet success rate compared to that obtained with static spectrum access in an indoor environment. The results of this thesis lead to experiment a cognitive radio with an SDR not only for a WSN, but for other wireless networks and radio standards