TY - JOUR
T1 - On cohabitating networking technologies with common wireless access for home automation system purposes
AU - Batalla, Jordi Mongay
AU - Mastorakis, George
AU - Mavromoustakis, Constandinos X.
AU - Zurek, Jerzy
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - An increasing number of home automation systems using wireless devices compete for the radio access in the same space and time. Lately, a stressing trend consists of aggregating home automation systems to save energy consumption, while at the same time avoiding wireless interference. This article proposes virtualization, open software deployment, and separation of radio and higher layers as the response to the increasing expandability of home automation systems combined with the increasing number of technologies for connecting wireless devices. A system has been developed, containing three different technologies: ZigBee, Idsecom, and 6LoWPAN simultaneously working over a virtualization platform with access to a common antenna. The evaluation tests performed on the system validate the solution and separately show the performance capacity of virtualization platform, software (ZigBee, Idsecom and 6LoWPAN) nodes, and 802.15.4 wireless antennas.
AB - An increasing number of home automation systems using wireless devices compete for the radio access in the same space and time. Lately, a stressing trend consists of aggregating home automation systems to save energy consumption, while at the same time avoiding wireless interference. This article proposes virtualization, open software deployment, and separation of radio and higher layers as the response to the increasing expandability of home automation systems combined with the increasing number of technologies for connecting wireless devices. A system has been developed, containing three different technologies: ZigBee, Idsecom, and 6LoWPAN simultaneously working over a virtualization platform with access to a common antenna. The evaluation tests performed on the system validate the solution and separately show the performance capacity of virtualization platform, software (ZigBee, Idsecom and 6LoWPAN) nodes, and 802.15.4 wireless antennas.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2016.7721745
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2016.7721745
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012230342
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 23
SP - 76
EP - 83
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 5
M1 - 7721745
ER -