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We consider an environment strongly affected by the presence of metallic objects, that can be considered representative of an indoor industrial environment with metal obstacles. This scenario is a very harsh environment where radio communication has notorious difficulties, as metallic objects create a strong blockage component and surfaces are highly reflective. In this environment, we investigate how to dynamically allocate MAC resources in time to static and mobile users based on context awareness extracted from a legacy WiFi positioning system. In order to address this problem, we integrate our WiFi ranging and positioning system in the WiSHFUL architecture and then define a hypothesis test to declare if the link is in line-of-sight (LOS) or non-line-of-sight (NLOS) based on angular information derived from ranging and position information. We show that context information can help increase the network throughput in the above industrial-like scenario.
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This work has been funded in part by the European Commission in the framework of the H2020 project WiSHFUL (Grant agreement no. 645274), and in part by the Madrid Regional Government through the TIGRE5-CM program (S2013/ICE-2919).
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Rea, M., Garlisi, D., Cordobés, H., Giustiniano, D. (2019). Location-Aware MAC Scheduling in Industrial-Like Environment. In: Sucasas, V., Mantas, G., Althunibat, S. (eds) Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems. BROADNETS 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_20
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