Reliability through frequency diversity
Thomas Watteyne, Ankur M. Mehta, Kristofer S. J. Pister · 2009
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face the challenge of ensuring end-to-end communication while operating over individually unreliable wireless links. This paper addresses channel hopping, a class of frequency diverse communication protocols in which subsequent packets are sent over different frequency channels. Channel hopping combats external interference and persistent multipath fading, two of the main causes of failure along a communication link.