Experimental study of the effects of Transmission Power Control and Blacklisting in Wireless Sensor Networks. Son, D., Krishnamachari, B., & Heidemann, J. In Proceedings of the FirstIEEE Conference on Sensor and Adhoc Communication and Networks , pages 289–298, Santa Clara, California, USA, October, 2004. IEEE.
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We experimentally investigate the impact of variable transmission power on link quality, and propose variable power link quality control techniques to enhance the performance of data delivery in wireless sensor networks. This study extends the state of the art in two key respects: first, while there are a number of previous results on power control techniques for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, to our knowledge nearly all of them have been simulation or analytical studies that assume idealized link conditions; second, while there are several recent experimental studies that have shown the prevalence of non-ideal unreliable communication links in sensor networks, these have not thoroughly investigated the impact of variable transmission power. We perform a systematic set of experiments to analyze how transmission power changes affect the quality of low power RF wireless links between nodes. These experiments show how significant variation in link qualities occur in real-world deployments and how these effects strongly influence the effectiveness of transmission power control. We then present a packet-based transmission power control mechanism that incorporates blacklisting to enhance link reliability while minimizing interference. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated via testbed experiments.
@InProceedings{Son04a,
	author = 	"Dongjin Son and Bhaskar Krishnamachari and John Heidemann",
	title = 	"Experimental study of the effects of Transmission Power Control and Blacklisting in Wireless Sensor Networks",
	booktitle = 	"Proceedings of the " # "First" # " IEEE Conference on Sensor and Adhoc Communication and Networks ",
	year = 		2004,
	sortdate = "2004-10-01",
	project = "ilense, macss",
	jsubject = "sensornet_subtransport",
	publisher =	"IEEE",
	address =	"Santa Clara, California, USA",
	month =		oct,
	pages =		"289--298",
	location =	"johnh: pafile",
	keywords =	"blacklisting, power transmission control,
                         sensor network",
	url =		"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Son04a.html",
	pdfurl =	"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Son04a.pdf",
	copyrightholder = "IEEE",
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	abstract = "
We experimentally investigate the impact of variable
transmission power on link quality, and propose variable power link
quality control techniques to enhance the performance of data delivery
in wireless sensor networks. This study extends the state of the art
in two key respects: first, while there are a number of previous
results on power control techniques for wireless ad hoc and sensor
networks, to our knowledge nearly all of them have been simulation or
analytical studies that assume idealized link conditions; second,
while there are several recent experimental studies that have shown
the prevalence of non-ideal unreliable communication links in sensor
networks, these have not thoroughly investigated the impact of
variable transmission power. We perform a systematic set of
experiments to analyze how transmission power changes affect the
quality of low power RF wireless links between nodes. These
experiments show how significant variation in link qualities occur in
real-world deployments and how these effects strongly influence the
effectiveness of transmission power control. We then present a
packet-based transmission power control mechanism that incorporates
blacklisting to enhance link reliability while minimizing
interference. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated
via testbed experiments.
",
}

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