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In 2015, the IEEE 802.15.4 standard was expanded by the Deterministic and Synchronous Multi-Channel Extension (DSME) to increase reliability, scalability and energy-efficiency in industrial applications. The extension offers a TDMA/FDMA-based channel access, where time is divided into two alternating phases, a contention access period (CAP) and a contention free period (CFP). During the CAP, transmission slots can be allocated offering an exclusive access to the shared medium during the CFP. The fraction \(\tau \) of CFP’s time slots in a dataframe is a critical value, because it directly influences agility and throughput. A high throughput demands that the CFP is much longer than the CAP, i.e., a high value of \(\tau \), because application data is only sent during the CFP. High agility is given if the expected waiting time to send a CAP message is short and that the length of the CAPs are long enough to accommodate necessary GTS negotiations, i.e., a low value of \(\tau \). Once DSME is configured according to the needs of an application, \(\tau \) can only assume one of two values and cannot be changed at run-time. In this paper, we propose two extensions of DSME that allow to adopt \(\tau \) to the current traffic pattern. We show theoretically and through simulations that the proposed extensions provide a high degree of responsiveness to traffic fluctuations while keeping the throughput high.
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Meyer, F., Mantilla-González, I., Turau, V. (2020). New CAP Reduction Mechanisms for IEEE 802.15.4 DSME to Support Fluctuating Traffic in IoT Systems. In: Grieco, L.A., Boggia, G., Piro, G., Jararweh, Y., Campolo, C. (eds) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12338. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_13
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