Automated Network Planning for Industrial Wireless Mesh Networks
Qian Chen, Xiaojuan Zhang, Wei Lih Lim, Y.S. Kwok, Sumei Sun · 2018
In this paper, we study automated network planning for industrial wireless mesh networks. Based on the requirements of routing reliability in WirelessHART network, we propose two network planning approaches following the principles of the shortest hops and the least routers, respectively. We then implement them in Algorithms 1 and 2 respectively to automatically generate the network deployment for a given factory layout. Simulation results show that there exists a performance tradeoff between the two algorithms. The proposed algorithms have also been implemented and validated in an NS-2 WirelessHART network simulation.