Investigating WirelessHART coexistence issues through a specifically designed simulator

Author

De Dominicis, C.M. ; Ferrari, P. ; Flammini, A. ; Sisinni, Emiliano ; Bertocco, Matteo ; Giorgi, Giada ; Narduzzi, Claudio ; Tramarin, Federico

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. for Autom., Univ. of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 May 2009

Firstpage

1085

Lastpage

1090

Abstract

In this paper, the WirelessHART communication scheme is investigated. The protocol is at first described, in order to underline the key aspects of its design; then, a simulation tool is presented: it enables analysis that accounts for both protocol and physical layers issues. In particular, interference effects on protocol choices can be easily analyzed. The experimental results, obtained from simulations, highlight improvements of WirelessHART with respect to IEEE 802.15.4 standard, concerning the Packet Error Ratio (PER) degradation of interfering networks.

Keywords

error statistics; protocols; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; WirelessHART communication scheme; interfering network; packet error ratio; physical layers; protocol; Automation; Electrical equipment industry; Field buses; Industrial control; Interference; Physical layer; Protocols; Wireless LAN; Wireless sensor networks; Working environment noise; WirelessHART; coexistence; simulation; wireless fieldbus; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3352-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168615

Filename

5168615