Some factors affecting performance of a wireless sensor network — entropy-based analysis

Electromagnetic interferences and other disturbances in industrial environment may decrease the performance of wireless sensor networks. However, the lack of empirical results providing proof for these arguments is evident. In this paper, analysis results of systematic experiments carried out for potential, disturbing factors in industrial environment are presented. Moreover, a novel entropy-based approach to measure changes in jitter variation is introduced. The selected approach performed well, being able to point out statistically significant sources of disturbances.