Hassan Iqbal
Muhammad Hamad Alizai
ABSTRACT
IoT deployments often require communication between devices that employ heterogeneous wireless technologies. Traditionally, expensive gateways are used to relay packets between heterogeneous nodes. Recent cross-technology communication offers a low bandwidth alternative, which is only feasible when communication between such nodes is limited to simple binary commands. In contrast, our work capitalizes on the increasing presence of multi-standard radio chips in mainstream IoT devices, to provide a new perspective on how to enable direct communication between heterogeneous nodes. We design Scylla---a software control layer---that allows multiple wireless stacks to coexist on top of a single radio chip, thereby simultaneously offering multiple communication interfaces. Uniquely, Scylla achieves near stack-native performance and requires no changes to the standards.
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Index Terms
- Scylla: interleaving multiple IoT stacks on a single radio
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