ToLHnet: A low-complexity protocol for mixed wired and wireless low-rate control networks

Author

Biagetti, Giorgio ; Crippa, Paolo ; Curzi, Alessandro ; Orcioni, Simone ; Turchetti, Claudio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. Politec. delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

11-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

181

Abstract

ToLHnet (which stands for “tree or linear hopping network”) is a powerful yet simple networking protocol we developed in order to support the creation of mixed networks, employing wired and wireless connections over different media among thousands of nodes. It is based on tree routing, with special care to support the degenerate case of linear routing, to keep implementation on nodes simple and protocol overhead low. This paper describes the essentials of the protocol and presents a case study detailing its implementation and performance on a Texas Instruments TM4C123GH6PMI microcontroller, with the addition of a power-line-communication modem and a 433 MHz radio.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; microcontrollers; protocols; telecommunication network topology; TM4C123GH6PMI microcontroller; Texas Instruments; ToLHnet; frequency 433 MHz; linear routing; networking protocol; power-line-communication modem; protocol overhead; tree or linear hopping network; tree routing; wired connections; wireless connections; wireless low-rate control networks; Media; Payloads; Peer-to-peer computing; Protocols; Routing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; internet of things; lighting system control; linear routing; low-rate control network; sensor network; tree routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education and Research Conference (EDERC), 2014 6th European Embedded Design in

Conference_Location

Milano

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6841-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDERC.2014.6924383

Filename

6924383