When a commercial Wireless Sensor Network designed for environmental control and security in buildings was tested before being launched, disappointing differences between the behaviour in simulations and in the real world were observed. Fortunately, thesedifferences disappeared when the energy saving radio duty cycling protocols were deactivated. The company then decided to provide their customers with larger batteries. They also suggested the authors of this paper to start an in depth experimental analysis of radio duty cycling as implemented in the Contiki operating system for Zolertia Z1 motes. Many subtle issues that remained hidden in simulations appeared to have infrequent but disruptive consequences in the real world. These issues have been identified, understood and corrected. They were a source of inspiration for recommendations tending to improve the overall reliability of Contiki.
Bezunartea Pascual, M, Sartori, B, Tiberghien, J & Steenhaut, K 2017, Tackling malfunctions caused by Radio Duty Cycling protocols that do not appear in simulation studies. in R Eskicioglu (ed.), FAILSAFE 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, Part of SenSys 2017. ACM, New York, USA, pp. 10-15, 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Delft, Netherlands, 5/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3143337.3143340
Bezunartea Pascual, M., Sartori, B., Tiberghien, J., & Steenhaut, K. (2017). Tackling malfunctions caused by Radio Duty Cycling protocols that do not appear in simulation studies. In R. Eskicioglu (Ed.), FAILSAFE 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, Part of SenSys 2017 (pp. 10-15). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3143337.3143340
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title = "Tackling malfunctions caused by Radio Duty Cycling protocols that do not appear in simulation studies",
abstract = "When a commercial Wireless Sensor Network designed for environmental control and security in buildings was tested before being launched, disappointing differences between the behaviour in simulations and in the real world were observed. Fortunately, thesedifferences disappeared when the energy saving radio duty cycling protocols were deactivated. The company then decided to provide their customers with larger batteries. They also suggested the authors of this paper to start an in depth experimental analysis of radio duty cycling as implemented in the Contiki operating system for Zolertia Z1 motes. Many subtle issues that remained hidden in simulations appeared to have infrequent but disruptive consequences in the real world. These issues have been identified, understood and corrected. They were a source of inspiration for recommendations tending to improve the overall reliability of Contiki.",
keywords = "Contiki OS, Malfunctions, Radio Duty Cycling",
author = "{Bezunartea Pascual}, Maite and Benjamin Sartori and Jacques Tiberghien and Kris Steenhaut",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1145/3143337.3143340",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4503-5482-0",
pages = "10--15",
editor = "Rasit Eskicioglu",
booktitle = "FAILSAFE 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, Part of SenSys 2017",
publisher = "ACM",
note = "15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017 ; Conference date: 05-11-2017 Through 08-11-2017",
url = "http://sensys.acm.org/2017/",
}