A Software-Defined Radio Tool for Experimenting with RSS Measurements in IEEE 802.15.4: Implementation and Applications

Author

Coluccia, Angelo ; Ricciato, Fabio

Author_Institution

Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

July 30 2012-Aug. 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an open source Software-Defined Radio tool compliant with IEEE 802.15.4, which incorporates features for the collection and processing of Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements from incoming packets. The implementation includes RSS Indicator (RSSI) feature, data handling and application code for channel estimation, ranging and localization. The tool can be used for experimenting with RSSI measurements from over-the-air IEEE 802.15.4 packets. To illustrate the tool usage, we present experimental results on packets sniffed from commercial ZigBee nodes. Moreover, we highlight some issues in the RSSI calculation, showing how different aspects of the RSS computation can be investigated at the finest granularity, hence allowing researchers and practitioners to experiment down to the PHY layer.

Keywords

Zigbee; channel estimation; data handling; software radio; PHY layer; RSS Indicator; RSS measurements; RSSI calculation; RSSI feature; ZigBee nodes; channel estimation; data handling; over-the-air IEEE 802.15.4 packets; received signal strength measurements; software-defined radio tool; Channel estimation; Distance measurement; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Maximum likelihood estimation; Receivers; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2012 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1543-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289199

Filename

6289199