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Department of Computer Science Institute for Systems Architecture, Computer Networks Group
MX-MAC: A MOBILITY-AWARE MAC PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Motivation
Contributions
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Wireless sensor nodes employed in medical application are not always static
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Stochastic link quality estimation model to detect link quality during run time
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Mobility of nodes may lead to frequently link disconnection and establishment, which potentially increase packet loss and latency
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Lightweight Neighbor discovery algorithm to search for new receivers after detecting weak link quality
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Single packet transmission scheme is not sufficient for some applications which require large amount of packets in burst
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Seamless Handover without link disruption. It keeps link connection while discovering new links.
A Mobility-Aware MAC Protocol for Medical Applications
MX-MAC
Seamless Handover Process ·
Case 1: Initial Phase sending preambles to discover new receiver
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Case 2: Early ACK Phase new receiver wakes up and replies to sender with its address information
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Case 3: Normal Phase Transmitting messages to specific receiver in burst
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Case 4: Neighbor Discovery Phase sender continues transmitting message to original receiver while discovering new receiver by embedding handover request to destination address
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Case 5: Handover Phase A new free receiver wakes up and replies to the handover request
Link Quality Estimation and Decision Mechanism Predition
RSSI Partition
Decision
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10 consecutive RSSI values as one slot
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Employ LMS adaptive filter to predicate link quality
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Partition RSSI range into 5 link quality levels, each level has 20 dBm width
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Affordable computational complexity. It requires only 17 multiplications and 15 additions for one prediction
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Using probability method to determine link quality level
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handover Immediate Handover
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Take both current link quality level and predicted one into account
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Two static receivers deployed in a distance of 30m. The mobile node walked from R1 towards R2 at a normal speed (1.5 m/s)
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Integrate with time-based and trend-based algorithm
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Handover happened when link quality became weak
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Predefined rule-based decision module
No additional configuration
Evaluation Packt Loss ·
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Distance is the main factor that affects link quality Handover mechanism can reduce packet loss
Single-Hop Latency ·
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Seamless handover mechanism introduces little latency In neighbor discovery phase, waiting ACK timer is the main factor of latency
Contact: Jianjun Wen, Waltenegus Dargie TU Dresden, Department of Computer Science, Computer Networks Group 01062 Dresden, Germany Email: {Jianjun.Wen, Waltenegus.Dargie}@tu-dresden.de
Ping Pong Handover ·
The distance between R1 and R2 was 40m
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Handover occurred back and forth in the middle area of R1 and R2
