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http://dx.doi.org/10.9723/jksiis.2018.23.3.001

Improving the Reliability of Beacon Synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol using a Reception Time Compensation Scheme  

Kim, Hiecheol (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.23, no.3, 2018 , pp. 1-11 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper explores the reliability issue especially associated with the time-division synchronous communication when a networking stack is implemented using software timers provided by embedded operating systems. Especially, we explore the reliability of beacon synchronization of IEEE 802.15.4. Our experiments based on its practical implementation clearly show that processing delays or losses of hardware timer interrupts used for software timers lead to occasional failures in beacon synchronization. To avoid such failures, we suggest a reception time compensation scheme that turns on the receiver earlier than expected.
Keywords
IEEE 802.15.4; Beacon Mode; Beacon Synchronization; Software Timer;
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