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http://dx.doi.org/10.9723/jksiis.2014.19.1.013

Implementation of a Sensor Node with Convolutional Channel Coding Capability  

Jin, Young Suk (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
Moon, Byung Hyun (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.19, no.1, 2014 , pp. 13-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sensor nodes are used for monitoring and collecting the environmental data via wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network with various sensor nodes draws attention as a key technology in ubiquitous computing. Sensor nodes has very small memory capacity and limited power resource. Thus, it is essential to have energy efficient strategy for the sensor nodes. Since the sensor nodes are operating on the same frequency bands with ISM frequency bands, the interference by the devices operating on the ISM band degrades the quality of communication integrity. In this paper, the convolutional code is proposed instead of ARQ for the error control for the sensor network. The proposed convolutional code was implemented and the BER performance is measured. For the fixed transmitting powers of -19.2 dBm and -25dBm, the BER with various communication distances are measured. The packet loss rate and the retransmission rate are calculated from the measured BER. It is shown that the porposed method obtained about 9~12% and 12-19% reduction in retransmission rate for -19.2 dBm and -25 dBm respectively.
Keywords
Convolutional coding; Wireless sensor node;
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