Performance evaluation of an indoor localization protocol in a 802.15.4 sensor network

Author

Robles, Jorge Juan ; Munoz, E.G. ; de la Cuesta, L. ; Lehnert, Ralf

Author_Institution

Telecommun., Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Nowadays there are many indoor localization systems, which use a sensor network as general platform. In this work, the protocol for localization “Highly Configurable Protocol” (HCP) [1] was implemented in a 802.15.4 test-bed forming a tree topology. Our goal was to empirically investigate how the limitations of a IEEE 802.15.4 sensor network affect the performance of HCP in the localization process, principally in the transmission of localization information across the network. The obtained results allowed to identify not only the causes of packet losses in the network, but also possible improvements to increase the efficiency of HCP and the scalability of the localization system.

Keywords

Zigbee; indoor communication; performance evaluation; protocols; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; 802.15.4 test-bed; HCP; IEEE 802.15.4 sensor network; highly configurable protocol; indoor localization protocol; indoor localization systems; localization information; localization process; performance evaluation; tree topology; IEEE 802.15 Standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1955-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPIN.2012.6418936

Filename

6418936