Poster Abstract: A Channel Quality Metric for Interference-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wirelesssensornetworkssharethespectrumwithotherwireless technologies. Hence, in order to minimize the effects of externalinterferencetheymustcarefullychoosethechannels for packet transmissions and reception. The identification of the best channels is, however, non-trivial. In this poster we present and evaluate a new channel quality metric that is based on the availability of channels over time rather than on the average energy in channels. Categories and Subject Descriptor