An Adaptive FEC Code Control Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks. Ahn, J., Hong, S., & Heidemann, J. Journal of Communications and Networks, 7(4):489–499, December, 2005.
An Adaptive FEC Code Control Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
For better performance over a noisy channel, mobile wireless networks transmit packets with FEC (Forward Error Correction) code to recover corrupt bits without retransmission. The static determination of the FEC code size, however, degrades their performance since the evaluation of the underlying channel state is hardly accurate and even widely varied. Our measurements over a wireless sensor network, for example, show that the average BER (Bit Error Rate) per second or per minute continuously changes from 0 up to 10-3. Under this environment, wireless networks waste their bandwidth since they can't deterministically select the appropriate size of FEC code matching to the fluctuating channel BER. This paper proposes an adaptive FEC technique called AFECCC (Adaptive FEC Code Control), which dynamically tunes the amount of FEC code per packet based on the arrival of acknowledgement packets without any specific information such as SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) or BER from receivers. Our simulation experiments indicate that AFECCC performs better than any static FEC algorithm and some conventional dynamic hybrid FEC/ARQ algorithms when wireless channels are modeled with two-state Markov chain, chaotic map, and traces collected from real sensor networks. Finally, AFECCC implemented in sensor motes achieves better performance than any static FEC algorithm.
@Article{Ahn05a,
	  author = "Jong-Suk Ahn and Seung-Wook Hong and John Heidemann",
	  title = 	"An Adaptive {FEC} Code Control Algorithm for Mobile
	      Wireless Sensor Networks",
	  journal = 	"Journal of Communications and Networks",
	  year = 		2005,
	sortdate = "2005-12-01",
	  volume =	7,
	  number =	4,
	  month =		dec,
	  pages =		"489--499",
	  location =	"johnh: pafile",
	  keywords =	"adaptive FEC, motes",
	project = "conser, ilense",
	jsubject = "sensornet_subtransport",
	  url =		"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Ahn05a.html",
	  pdfurl =	"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Ahn05a.pdf",
	  copyrightholder = "IEEE",
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	  myorganization = 	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	  abstract = "
  For better performance over a noisy channel, mobile wireless networks
  transmit packets with FEC (Forward Error Correction) code to recover
  corrupt bits without retransmission. The static determination of the
  FEC code size, however, degrades their performance since the
  evaluation of the underlying channel state is hardly accurate and even
  widely varied. Our measurements over a wireless sensor network, for
  example, show that the average BER (Bit Error Rate) per second or per
  minute continuously changes from 0 up to 10-3. Under this environment,
  wireless networks waste their bandwidth since they can't
  deterministically select the appropriate size of FEC code matching to
  the fluctuating channel BER.  This paper proposes an adaptive FEC
  technique called AFECCC (Adaptive FEC Code Control), which dynamically
  tunes the amount of FEC code per packet based on the arrival of
  acknowledgement packets without any specific information such as SNR
  (Signal to Noise Ratio) or BER from receivers. Our simulation
  experiments indicate that AFECCC performs better than any static FEC
  algorithm and some conventional dynamic hybrid FEC/ARQ algorithms when
  wireless channels are modeled with two-state Markov chain, chaotic
  map, and traces collected from real sensor networks. Finally, AFECCC
  implemented in sensor motes achieves better performance than any
  static FEC algorithm.
  ",
}

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