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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Falko Dressler

Security and Quality of Service and Aspects in ZigBee-based Wireless Communication

Institutions

Team

Funding

  • Siemens AG A&D, DAAD STIBET

Project Time

  • 01.07.2006 - 30.09.2010

Description

Based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which defines the physical layer (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) sublayer specifications for Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPAN), the ZigBee Alliance complements the specifications at the network, security, and application layers and provides an open global standard for building ultra-low complexity, ultra-low cost, ultra-low power consumption, and low data rate WPANs. ZigBee has become one of the most recent and promising WPAN technologies and is getting more popular in wireless sensor network (WSN) applications.
This project is a cooperated with SIEMENS AG A&D. Our primary research goals focus on quality of service (QoS) and security aspects in ZigBee-based WSN. We stress simulation and modeling techniques for performance evaluation. A complete model for the IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee protocol stack is to be implemented in OMNeT++. This simulation tool has been extensively employed in our group. In our simulations, we apply various traffic models to investigate both, traditional performance measures (delay, latency, throughput, etc.) and other measures specifically for WSN like energy efficiency and real-time behavior (stressed in industrial monitoring and controlling). Self-organization has been identified as a promising control paradigm for massively distributed systems. We will also examine its applicability in ZigBee-based networks. With respect to security we are interested in the cost of the various available security mechanisms proposed in ZigBee specification. Simulation results will reveal how these security mechanisms affect the network performance. In the long-run, we aim to develop simulation-based methodologies for designing sensor networks for industrial control applications.

Selected Publications

  • Feng Chen, Nan Wang, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Simulation study of IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN for industrial applications," Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (5), pp. 609–621, May 2010. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Towards IEEE 802.15.4e: A Study of Performance Aspects," Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010), 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010), Mannheim, Germany, March 2010, pp. 68–73. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Isabel Dietrich, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "An Energy Model for Simulation Studies of Wireless Sensor Networks using OMNeT++," Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, vol. 32 (2), pp. 133–138, June 2009. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Thomas Talanis, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Real-time Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Sensor Networks in Industrial Automation," Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES 2009), Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2009, pp. 136–139. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "QoS-oriented Integrated Network Planning for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), Poster Session, Rome, Italy, June 2009, pp. 1–3. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Nan Wang, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN for Industrial Applications," Proceedings of 5th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2008), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 2008, pp. 89–96. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Isabel Dietrich, Feng Chen, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Modeling energy consumption of wireless communications in OMNeT++," Proceedings of GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Systemsoftware und Energiebewusste Systeme, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2007, pp. 39–42. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Feng Chen, Falko Dressler and Armin Heindl, "End-to-End Performance Characteristics in Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 9th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2006), 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN 2006), Torremolinos, Spain, October 2006, pp. 41–47. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
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