Modelling message flows in Networked Lighting Control Systems using Trickle and CSMA

Lighting control applications have very strict latency and reliability requirements. Multihop wireless communication between lamps provides a low cost and flexible solution, but as networks grow large and dense, it becomes harder to satisfy these requirements. The Trickle algorithm has been proposed as a gossiping method for Wireless Sensor Networks. This work explores whether the process of generation of messages by Trickle and CSMA can be modelled and analyzed as a spatial Poisson process. We extended previous analyses of Trickle by refining the modelling of channel propagation and interference.