Interference mitigation techniques for a dense heterogeneous area network in machine-to-machine communications

09/04/2019
by   Dong Chen, et al.
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With the advent of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, various networking consumer industrial and autonomous systems exchange messages in the real world in order to achieve their objectives. Parts of these systems are comprised of short-range wireless networks in the form of clusters that collectively cover a large geographical area. In these clusters, the nodes that represent the cluster heads need to deal with two types of communications: one is within the cluster and the other is from the cluster to the sink node. As the number of clusters increases, it takes multiple hops for the cluster head to forward data to the sink node, thus resulting in a low packet delivery rate and throughput. To solve this problem, we propose a heterogeneous area network in which the cluster head is equipped with two types of radios: the IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11 radios. The former is for the devices within the cluster to communicate, whereas the latter is for the cluster heads to communicate to the sink node. Although the IEEE 802.11 links increase the link capacity, the IEEE 802.11 radio and the IEEE 802.15.4 radio might share the 2.4 GHz unlicensed band, thus giving rise to the inter-network collisions or interference. To tackle this problem and to maintain decent Qualityof-Service (QoS) for the network, we subsequently present two interference mitigation techniques, in which a Blank Burst (BB) period is proposed so that the IEEE 802.15.4 radios can be suspended while the IEEE 802.11 radios are active. Simulation results show the proposed two methods can effectively mitigate the inter-network collisions and are superior to the existing technique, which uses an adaptive aggregation technique to mitigate the inter-network collisions.

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