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Dominant channel occupancy for Wi-Fi backscatter uplink in industrial internet of things

Applied Sciences (Switzerland), ISSN: 2076-3417, Vol: 6, Issue: 12
2016
  • 15
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  • 20
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  • Citations
    15
    • Citation Indexes
      15
  • Captures
    20

Article Description

This paper presents a dominant channel occupancy (DCO) mechanism for the Wi-Fi backscatter uplink in the industrial Internet of things (IIoT). The DCO provides high-priority channel access and reliable burst transmission to theWi-Fi backscatter devices, thereby enabling theWi-Fi backscatter tag to deliver its tag information to theWi-Fi reader without interference from neighboring legacy Wi-Fi devices to guarantee the timeliness and reliability of the IIoT system. For the former, we consider three types of medium access control (MAC) configurations: "carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) starting with short inter-frame space (SIFS)", "freezing of the backoff period", and "reduced CW." In addition, the DCO uses the SIFS between burst packets to guarantee reliable burst transmission. To verify the effectiveness of DCO and determine a proper value for MAC parameters, we conduct experimental simulations under IEEE 802.11n PHY/MAC environments. The simulation results show that the reduced CW has the most significant effect on the channel occupancy. The Wi-Fi backscatter devices achieve much higher throughput than the separate cases when two or more configurations are used simultaneously. Moreover, the results exhibit that the use of SIFS between consecutive packets supports reliable burst transmission regardless of the transmission of the legacyWi-Fi devices in the vicinity.

Bibliographic Details

Jung Hyok Kwon; Hwi Ho Lee; Eui Jik Kim; Yongseok Lim

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Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy; Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Computer Science

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