Improving military operations using low rate wireless personal area networks

Author

Zheng, Jianliang ; Lee, Myung J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of New York, NY, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1529

Abstract

Low rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs) target low data rate, low power consumption and low cost wireless networking, and offer device level wireless connectivity. They are ideal for applications such as public security, battle field monitoring, inventory tracking, as well as home and office automation. IEEE 802.15.4 is the first standard designed for LR-WPANs, We develop an NS2 simulator based on IEEE 802.15.4 and conduct several sets of experiments to study various features of LR-WPANs, including: (1) star topology and peer-to-peer topology; (2) beacon enabled mode and non-beacon enabled mode; (3) association, tree formation and network auto-configuration; (4) orphaning and coordinator relocation; and (5) direct, indirect and guaranteed time slot (GTS) data transmissions.

Keywords

IEEE standards; data communication; military communication; peer-to-peer computing; personal area networks; telecommunication network topology; IEEE 802.15.4; WPAN; association; coordinator relocation; indirect data transmissions; military operations; network auto-configuration; nonbeacon enabled mode; orphaning; peer-to-peer topology; star topology; tree formation; wireless personal area networks; Communication system security; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Data security; Energy consumption; Network topology; Office automation; Standards development; Target tracking; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2004. MILCOM 2004. 2004 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8847-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2004.1495166

Filename

1495166