Network Formation in IEEE 802.15.4e Time Slotted Channel Hopping: A Survey

Author(s):  
Mohamed Remli ◽  
Oualid Demigha ◽  
Ali Yachir

TSCH (Time-Slotted Channel Hopping) protocol is introduced recently by IETF 6TiSCH working group for achieving low energy consumption and highly reliable IEEE 802.15.4e. TSCH is a synchronous MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol with IPv6 enabling Internet of Things (Io T) that are deployed in environments that are prone to interference. However, the IEEE 802.15.4e only describes TSCH link-layer design without a study of communication scheduling and network formation for high density and rapid mobile ad hoc network (MANET) which are still an open issue to the research community. The exiting model incurs high latency and energy overhead for performing device association. To address aforementioned issues, this paper present an Adaptive Routing (AR) model for MANET using mobility enabled TSCH network. Our model reduces the overhead of mobile device within mobility enabled TSCH network by introducing a novel modified beaconing for achieving Adaptive Routing design. Experiment are conducted to evaluate performance of AR over existing approaches shows significant reduction of energy overhead and attain good packet routing outcomes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 363-372
Author(s):  
K. M. Martin ◽  
B. Seetha Ramanjaneyulu

To meet the growing demands of low power and determinism in Industrial Wireless applications, IEEE defined IEEE 802.15.4e amendment that includes many channel access methods. Time Slotted Channel Hopping protocol is one of the most popular MAC protocols under IEEE 802.15.4e. However, scheduling of time slots for time slotted channel hopping, was not part of the protocol and so different scheduling algorithms were proposed by researchers. A new time slotted channel hopping scheduling mechanism that considers priorities to meet the time critical industrial applications is proposed in this work. Latency improvements of about 40 percentage are obtained here, for slot allocations to higher priority devices, when compared with the conventional queuing methods.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Young Kim ◽  
Sang-Hwa Chung ◽  
Gihwan Kim ◽  
Minjae Kim

Abstract IEEE 802.15.4e Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) operates on a time-division scheme and uses 16 separate channels for each communication to ensure high reliability even in an industrial environment where many devices are concentrated. The process of participating in the network is indispensable because the entire network operates at the same time. However, there is a problem with TSCH's channel change technique, which results in longer network participation time for new nodes wanting to participate in the network. Previous research has randomly chosen channels for beaconing to reduce network formation time. However, this approach is effective for networks with fewer nodes, but conflicts in beacon messages in networks with approximately 20 or more networks result in network congestion, which increases network participation time. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a collision minimization scheduling technique. This strategy assigns a separate time zone to each node to exclude the possibility of beacon message collisions. This algorithm allocates timeslot based on RANK of RPL. By explicitly predicting the longest network joining time of the network participating nodes, the average network joining time was measured to be about 25 seconds to 27 seconds faster compared to the previous research.


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