Performance evaluation and improvement of TCP/IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 under Wi-Fi interference

Author

Ji, Gerry ; Zhipeng Wang ; Diandi Zhu ; Makrakis, Dimitrios ; Mouftah, Hussein T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

3-6 May 2015

Firstpage

1095

Lastpage

1100

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that it is possible to implement the Internet Protocol (IP), especially IPv6, in low-power IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor networks (WSN). Blip is an open source experimental implementation of IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) based on TinyOS. In this study, the performance of Blip 2.0´s Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) under IEEE 802.11g Wi-Fi induced interference has been evaluated through experimentation and analysis. Some software problems in Blip 2.0 were discovered and corrected. To improve the reliability and performance of data segment transmission, two TCP layer parameters have been adjusted and tested in our testbed.

Keywords

Zigbee; radiofrequency interference; transport protocols; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Networks; Internet Protocol; TCP layer parameters; TCP/IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4; TinyOS; WSN; Wi-Fi interference; data segment transmission; low power wireless personal area networks; telecommunication network reliability; transmission control protocol; wireless sensor networks; Conferences; Decision support systems; Handheld computers; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Blip; IEEE 802.15.4; IPv6; TCP; TinyOS; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2015 IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5827-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2015.7129427

Filename

7129427