48 research outputs found
Utilizing ZigBee Technology for More Resource-efficient Wireless Networking
Wireless networks have been an essential part of communication in our daily life. Targeted at different applications, a variety of wireless networks have emerged. Due to constrained resources for wireless communications, challenges arise but are not fully addressed. Featured by low cost and low power, ZigBee technology has been developed for years. As the ZigBee technology becomes more and more mature, low-cost embedded ZigBee interfaces have been available off the shelf and their sizes are becoming smaller and smaller. It will not be surprising to see the ZigBee interface commonly embedded in mobile devices in the near future. Motivated by this trend, we propose to leverage the ZigBee technology to improve existing wireless networks. In this dissertation, we classify wireless networks into three categories (i.e., infrastructure-based, infrastructure-less and hybrid networks), and investigate each with a representative network. Practical schemes are designed with the major objective of improving resource efficiency for wireless networking through utilizing ZigBee technology. Extensive simulation and experiment results have demonstrated that network performance can be improved significantly in terms of energy efficiency, throughput, packet delivery delay, etc., by adopting our proposed schemes
Low-Power Wireless for the Internet of Things: Standards and Applications: Internet of Things, IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, Physical layer, Medium Access Control,coexistence, mesh networking, cyber-physical systems, WSN, M2M
International audienceThe proliferation of embedded systems, wireless technologies, and Internet protocols have enabled the Internet of Things (IoT) to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical world through enabling the monitoring and actuation of the physical world controlled by data processing systems. Wireless technologies, despite their offered convenience, flexibility, low cost, and mobility pose unique challenges such as fading, interference, energy, and security, which must be carefully addressed when using resource-constrained IoT devices. To this end, the efforts of the research community have led to the standardization of several wireless technologies for various types of application domains depending on factors such as reliability, latency, scalability, and energy efficiency. In this paper, we first overview these standard wireless technologies, and we specifically study the MAC and physical layer technologies proposed to address the requirements and challenges of wireless communications. Furthermore, we explain the use of these standards in various application domains, such as smart homes, smart healthcare, industrial automation, and smart cities, and discuss their suitability in satisfying the requirements of these applications. In addition to proposing guidelines to weigh the pros and cons of each standard for an application at hand, we also examine what new strategies can be exploited to overcome existing challenges and support emerging IoT applications
A critical analysis of research potential, challenges and future directives in industrial wireless sensor networks
In recent years, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) have emerged as an important research theme with applications spanning a wide range of industries including automation, monitoring, process control, feedback systems and automotive. Wide scope of IWSNs applications ranging from small production units, large oil and gas industries to nuclear fission control, enables a fast-paced research in this field. Though IWSNs offer advantages of low cost, flexibility, scalability, self-healing, easy deployment and reformation, yet they pose certain limitations on available potential and introduce challenges on multiple fronts due to their susceptibility to highly complex and uncertain industrial environments. In this paper a detailed discussion on design objectives, challenges and solutions, for IWSNs, are presented. A careful evaluation of industrial systems, deadlines and possible hazards in industrial atmosphere are discussed. The paper also presents a thorough review of the existing standards and industrial protocols and gives a critical evaluation of potential of these standards and protocols along with a detailed discussion on available hardware platforms, specific industrial energy harvesting techniques and their capabilities. The paper lists main service providers for IWSNs solutions and gives insight of future trends and research gaps in the field of IWSNs
Heterogeneous Networks for the IoT and Machine Type Communications
The Internet of Things promises to be a key-factor in the forthcoming industrial and social revolution. The Internet of Things concept rely on pervasive communications where ’things’ are ’always connected’. The focus of the thesis is on Heterogeneous Networks for Internet of Things and Machine Type Communications. Heterogeneous Networks are an enabling factor of paramount important in order to achieve the ’always connected’ paradigm. On the other hand, Machine Type Communications are deeply different from Human-to-Human communications both in terms of traffic patterns and requirements. This thesis investigate both concepts. In particular, here are studied short and long range solutions for Machine-to-machine applications. For this work a dual approach has been followed: for the short-range solutions analysis an experimental approach has been privileged; meanwhile for the long-range solutions analysis a theoretical and simulation approach has been preferred. In both case, a particular attention has been given to the feasibility of the solutions proposed, hence solutions based on products that already exist in the market have been privileged
User Experience Enhancement on Smartphones using Wireless Communication Technologies
학위논문 (박사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 전기·정보공학부, 2020. 8. 박세웅.Recently, various sensors as well as wireless communication technologies such as
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) have been equipped with smartphones. In
addition, in many cases, users use a smartphone while on the move, so if a wireless
communication technologies and various sensors are used for a mobile user, a better
user experience can be provided. For example, when a user moves while using Wi-Fi,
the user experience can be improved by providing a seamless Wi-Fi service. In addition,
it is possible to provide a special service such as indoor positioning or navigation
by estimating the users mobility in an indoor environment, and additional services
such as location-based advertising and payment systems can also be provided. Therefore,
improving the user experience by using wireless communication technology and
smartphones sensors is considered to be an important research field in the future.
In this dissertation, we propose three systems that can improve the user experience
or convenience by usingWi-Fi, BLE, and smartphones sensors: (i) BLEND: BLE
beacon-aided fast Wi-Fi handoff for smartphones, (ii) PYLON: Smartphone based Indoor
Path Estimation and Localization without Human Intervention, (iii) FINISH:
Fully-automated Indoor Navigation using Smartphones with Zero Human Assistance.
First, we propose fast handoff scheme called BLEND exploiting BLE as secondary
radio. We conduct detailed analysis of the sticky client problem on commercial smartphones
with experiment and close examination of Android source code. We propose
BLEND, which exploits BLE modules to provide smartphones with prior knowledge
of the presence and information of APs operating at 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi channels.
BLEND operating with only application requires no hardware and Android source code
modification of smartphones.We prototype BLEND with commercial smartphones and
evaluate the performance in real environment. Our measurement results demonstrate
that BLEND significantly improves throughput and video bitrate by up to 61% and
111%, compared to a commercial Android application, respectively, with negligible
energy overhead.
Second, we design a path estimation and localization system, termed PYLON,
which is plug-and-play on Android smartphones. PYLON includes a novel landmark
correction scheme that leverages real doors of indoor environments consisting of floor
plan mapping, door passing time detection and correction. It operates without any user
intervention. PYLON relaxes some requirements for localization systems. It does not
require any modifications to hardware or software of smartphones, and the initial location
of WiFi APs, BLE beacons, and users. We implement PYLON on five Android
smartphones and evaluate it on two office buildings with the help of three participants
to prove applicability and scalability. PYLON achieves very high floor plan mapping
accuracy with a low localization error.
Finally, We design a fully-automated navigation system, termed FINISH, which
addresses the problems of existing previous indoor navigation systems. FINISH generates
the radio map of an indoor building based on the localization system to determine
the initial location of the user. FINISH relaxes some requirements for current
indoor navigation systems. It does not require any human assistance to provide navigation
instructions. In addition, it is plug-and-play on Android smartphones. We implement
FINISH on five Android smartphones and evaluate it on five floors of an office
building with the help of multiple users to prove applicability and scalability. FINISH
determines the location of the user with extremely high accuracy with in one step.
In summary, we propose systems that enhance the users convenience and experience
by utilizing wireless infrastructures such as Wi-Fi and BLE and various smartphones
sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope, and barometer equipped in smartphones.
Systems are implemented on commercial smartphones to verify the performance
through experiments. As a result, systems show the excellent performance that
can enhance the users experience.1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Overview of Existing Approaches 3
1.2.1 Wi-Fi handoff for smartphones 3
1.2.2 Indoor path estimation and localization 4
1.2.3 Indoor navigation 5
1.3 Main Contributions 7
1.3.1 BLEND: BLE Beacon-aided Fast Handoff for Smartphones 7
1.3.2 PYLON: Smartphone Based Indoor Path Estimation and Localization with Human Intervention 8
1.3.3 FINISH: Fully-automated Indoor Navigation using Smartphones with Zero Human Assistance 9
1.4 Organization of Dissertation 10
2 BLEND: BLE Beacon-Aided FastWi-Fi Handoff for Smartphones 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 Related Work 14
2.2.1 Wi-Fi-based Handoff 14
2.2.2 WPAN-aided AP Discovery 15
2.3 Background 16
2.3.1 Handoff Procedure in IEEE 802.11 16
2.3.2 BSS Load Element in IEEE 802.11 16
2.3.3 Bluetooth Low Energy 17
2.4 Sticky Client Problem 17
2.4.1 Sticky Client Problem of Commercial Smartphone 17
2.4.2 Cause of Sticky Client Problem 20
2.5 BLEND: Proposed Scheme 21
2.5.1 Advantages and Necessities of BLE as Secondary Low-Power Radio 21
2.5.2 Overall Architecture 22
2.5.3 AP Operation 23
2.5.4 Smartphone Operation 24
2.5.5 Verification of aTH estimation 28
2.6 Performance Evaluation 30
2.6.1 Implementation and Measurement Setup 30
2.6.2 Saturated Traffic Scenario 31
2.6.3 Video Streaming Scenario 35
2.7 Summary 38
3 PYLON: Smartphone based Indoor Path Estimation and Localization without Human Intervention 41
3.1 Introduction 41
3.2 Background and Related Work 44
3.2.1 Infrastructure-Based Localization 44
3.2.2 Fingerprint-Based Localization 45
3.2.3 Model-Based Localization 45
3.2.4 Dead Reckoning 46
3.2.5 Landmark-Based Localization 47
3.2.6 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) 47
3.3 System Overview 48
3.3.1 Notable RSSI Signature 49
3.3.2 Smartphone Operation 50
3.3.3 Server Operation 51
3.4 Path Estimation 52
3.4.1 Step Detection 52
3.4.2 Step Length Estimation 54
3.4.3 Walking Direction 54
3.4.4 Location Update 55
3.5 Landmark Correction Part 1: Virtual Room Generation 56
3.5.1 RSSI Stacking Difference 56
3.5.2 Virtual Room Generation 57
3.5.3 Virtual Graph Generation 59
3.5.4 Physical Graph Generation 60
3.6 Landmark Correction Part 2: From Floor Plan Mapping to Path Correction 60
3.6.1 Candidate Graph Generation 60
3.6.2 Backbone Node Mapping 62
3.6.3 Dead-end Node Mapping 65
3.6.4 Final Candidate Graph Selection 66
3.6.5 Door Passing Time Detection 68
3.6.6 Path Correction 70
3.7 Particle Filter 71
3.8 Performance Evaluation 73
3.8.1 Implementation and Measurement Setup 73
3.8.2 Step Detection Accuracy 77
3.8.3 Floor Plan Mapping Accuracy 77
3.8.4 Door Passing Time 78
3.8.5 Walking Direction and Localization Performance 81
3.8.6 Impact of WiFi AP and BLE Beacon Number 84
3.8.7 Impact of Walking Distance and Speed 84
3.8.8 Performance on Different Areas 87
3.9 Summary 87
4 FINISH: Fully-automated Indoor Navigation using Smartphones with Zero Human Assistance 91
4.1 Introduction 91
4.2 Related Work 92
4.2.1 Localization-based Navigation System 92
4.2.2 Peer-to-peer Navigation System 93
4.3 System Overview 93
4.3.1 System Architecture 93
4.3.2 An Example for Navigation 95
4.4 Level Change Detection and Floor Decision 96
4.4.1 Level Change Detection 96
4.5 Real-time navigation 97
4.5.1 Initial Floor and Location Decision 97
4.5.2 Orientation Adjustment 98
4.5.3 Shortest Path Estimation 99
4.6 Performance Evaluation 99
4.6.1 Initial Location Accuracy 99
4.6.2 Real-Time Navigation Accuracy 100
4.7 Summary 101
5 Conclusion 102
5.1 Research Contributions 102
5.2 Future Work 103
Abstract (In Korean) 118
감사의 글Docto
Multi-channel TDMA scheduling in wireless sensor networks
Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering and Science of Bilkent Univ., 2013.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2013.Includes bibliographical references leaves 55-61.The Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) paradigm arises to be useful in many application
domains, whereas it is particularly suitable for computer vision problems
due to the difficulty of obtaining manual labeling. Multiple Instance Learning
methods have large applicability to a variety of challenging learning problems
in computer vision, including object recognition and detection, tracking, image
classification, scene classification and more.
As opposed to working with single instances as in standard supervised learning,
Multiple Instance Learning operates over bags of instances. A bag is labeled
as positive if it is known to contain at least one positive instance; otherwise it
is labeled as negative. The overall learning task is to learn a model for some
concept using a training set that is formed of bags. A vital component of using
Multiple Instance Learning in computer vision is its design for abstracting the
visual problem to multi-instance representation, which involves determining what
the bag is and what are the instances in the bag.
In this context, we consider three different computer vision problems and
propose solutions for each of them via novel representations. The first problem
is image retrieval and re-ranking; we propose a method that automatically
constructs multiple candidate Multi-instance bags, which are likely to contain
relevant images. The second problem we look into is recognizing actions from
still images, where we extract several candidate object regions and approach the
problem of identifying related objects from a weakly supervised point of view.
Finally, we address the recognition of human interactions in videos within a MIL
framework. In human interaction recognition, videos may be composed of frames
of different activities, and the task is to identify the interaction in spite of irrelevant
activities that are scattered through the video. To overcome this problem,
we use the idea of Multiple Instance Learning to tackle irrelevant actions in the
whole video sequence classification. Each of the outlined problems are tested
on benchmark datasets of the problems and compared with the state-of-the-art.
The experimental results verify the advantages of the proposed MIL approaches
to these vision problems.Uyanık, ÖzgeM.S
Performance Prediction and Tuning for Symmetric Coexistence of WiFi and ZigBee Networks
Due to the explosive deployment of WiFi and ZigBee wireless networks, 2.4GHz ISM bands (2.4GHz-2.5GHz) are becoming increasingly crowded, and the co-channel coexistence of these two networks is inevitable. For coexistence networks, people always want to predict their performance (e.g. throughput, energy consumption, etc.) before deployment, or even want to tune parameters to compensate unnecessary performance degradation (owing to the huge differences between these two MAC protocols) or to satisfy some performance requirements (e.g., priority, delay constraint, etc.) of them. However, predicting and tuning performance of coexisting WiFi and ZigBee networks has been a challenging task, primarily due to the lack of corresponding simulators and analytical models.
In this dissertation, we addressed the aforementioned problems by presenting simulators and models for the coexistence of WiFi and ZigBee devices. Specifically, based on the energy efficiency and traffic pattern of three practical coexistence scenarios: disaster rescue site, smart hospital and home automation. We first of all classify them into three classes, which are non-sleeping devices with saturated traffic (SAT), non-sleeping devices with unsaturated traffic (UNSAT) and duty-cycling devices with unsaturated traffic (DC-UNSAT). Then a simulator and an analytical model are proposed for each class, where each simulator is verified by simple hardware based experiment. Next, we derive the expressions for performance metrics like throughput, delay etc., and predict them using both the proposed simulator and the model. Due to the higher accuracy of the simulator, the results from them are used as the ground truth to validate the accuracy of the model. Last, according to some common performance tuning requirements for each class, we formulate them into optimization problems and propose the corresponding solving methods. The results show that the proposed simulators have high accuracy in performance prediction, while the models, although are less accurate than the former, can be used in fast prediction. In particular, the models can also be easily used in optimization problems for performance tuning, and the results prove its high efficiency