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Tackling malfunctions caused by Radio Duty Cycling protocols that do not appear in simulation studies

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Maite Bezunartea,

Benjamin Sartori,

Jacques Tiberghien,

Kris SteenhautAuthors Info & Claims

FAILSAFE'17: Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3143337.3143340

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When a commercial Wireless Sensor Network designed for environmental control and security in buildings was tested before being launched, disappointing differences between the behaviour in simulations and in the real world were observed. Fortunately, these differences disappeared when the energy saving radio duty cycling protocols were deactivated. The company then decided to provide their customers with larger batteries. They also suggested the authors of this paper to start an in depth experimental analysis of radio duty cycling as implemented in the Contiki operating system for Zolertia Z1 motes. Many subtle issues that remained hidden in simulations appeared to have infrequent but disruptive consequences in the real world. These issues have been identified, understood and corrected. They were a source of inspiration for recommendations tending to improve the overall reliability of Contiki.

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Tackling malfunctions caused by Radio Duty Cycling protocols that do not appear in simulation studies
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Link-layer protocols
    2. Protocol correctness
      1. Protocol testing and verification

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FAILSAFE'17: Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3143337

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Hauweele DQuoitin B(2020)Toward accurate clock drift modeling in Wireless Sensor Networks simulationComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2020.08.025Online publication date: Sep-2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.08.025
Breza MTomic IMcCann J(2018)Failures from the Environment, a Report on the First FAILSAFE workshopACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review10.1145/3213232.321323848:2(40-45)Online publication date: 1-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3213232.3213238
Bezunartea MWang CBraeken ASteenhaut K(2018)Multi-radio Solution for Improving Reliability in RPL2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8580913(129-134)Online publication date: Sep-2018
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