Competition: Tackling Cross-technology Interference using Spatial and Channel Diversity for Robust Data Collection
Mobashir Mohammad, XiangFa Guo, Mun Choon Chan · International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks · 2017
Cross-technology interference is known to adversely affect the reliability of 802.15.4 communication. 802.15.4 competes with a lot of wireless technologies like IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), 802.16 (WiMAX), and Bluetooth for the shared 2.4 GHz ISM band. Common household appliances like the microwave and cordless phone further add on to the interference, making applications requiring data collection extremely challenging. For this competition, we propose to use Oppcast, a robust, responsive, and energy efficient data collection protocol that carefully exploits a combination of spatial and channel diversity without the need for performing expensive channel quality estimation.