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Characteristics of Low-Power Links

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Radio Link Quality Estimation in Low-Power Wireless Networks

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This chapter aims at providing a summary of key properties of low-power links. First, it gives an overview of the radio technology most commonly used in low-power wireless networks. Then, it distils from the vast array of empirical studies on low-power links a set of high-level observations, which are classified into spatial and temporal characteristics, link asymmetry, and interference. Such observations are helpful not only to design efficient Link Quality Estimators (LQEs) that take into account the most important aspects affecting link quality, but also to design efficient network protocols that have to handle link unreliability.

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    This is interpreted by the fact that the strength of the received signal is much higher than those of the noise level and the received signal from the interfering node.

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  1. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Nouha Baccour

  2. University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland, 6928, Manno, Switzerland

    Daniele Puccinelli

  3. Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB, Kista, Sweden

    Thiemo Voigt

  4. Instituto Superior de CISTER Research Centre, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal

    Anis Koubaa & Mario Alves

  5. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  6. University de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

    Habib Youssef

  7. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Marco Antonio Zuniga

  8. Universtät Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Carlo Alberto Boano & Kay Römer

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Baccour, N. et al. (2013). Characteristics of Low-Power Links. In: Radio Link Quality Estimation in Low-Power Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00774-8_1

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