Table of contents for Wireless personal area networks : performance, interconnections and security with IEEE 802.15.4 / Jelena Misic and Vojislav B. Misic.
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Contents
Preface
I Prologue: WPANs and 802.15.4 1
1 Wireless Personal Area Networks
1.1 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
1.2 Design Goals for the MAC Protocol
1.3 Classification of MAC Protocols For Ad Hoc Networks
1.4 Contention-Based MAC Protocols
1.5 New Kinds of Ad Hoc Networks
1.6 Sensor Networks
2 Operation of the IEEE 802.15.4 network
2.1 Physical Layer Characteristics
2.2 Star Topology and Beacon Enabled Operation
2.3 Slotted CSMA-CA Medium Access_
2.4 Acknowledging Successful Transmissions
2.5 Downlink Communication in Beacon Enabled Mode
2.6 Guaranteed Time Slots
2.7 Peer-to-Peer Topology and Non-Beacon Enabled Operation
2.8 Device Functionality and Cluster Formation
2.9 Format of the PHY and MAC frames
II Single-Cluster Networks
3 Cluster with Uplink Traffic
3.1 The System Model – Preliminaries
3.2 Superframe With an Active Period Only
3.3 Superframe With Both Active and Inactive Periods
3.4 Probability Distribution of the Packet Service Time
3.5 Probability Distribution of the Queue Length_
3.6 Access Delay
3.7 Performance Results
4 Cluster With Uplink And Downlink Traffic
4.1 The System Model
4.2 Modeling the Behavior of the Medium
4.3 Probability Distribution For the Packet Service Time
4.4 Performance of the Cluster With Bidirectional Traffic_
5 MAC Layer Performance Limitations_
5.1 Congestion of Packets Deferred to The Next Superframe
5.2 Congestion After The Inactive Period
5.3 Congestion of Uplink Data Requests
5.4 Blocking of Uplink Data and Data Requests
5.5 Possible Remedies
6 Activity Management Through Bernoulli Scheduling
6.1 The Need For Activity Management
6.2 Analysis of Activity Management
6.3 Analysis of the Impact of MAC and PHY Layers
6.4 Controlling the Event Sensing Reliability
6.5 Activity Management Policy
7 Admission Control Issues
7.1 The Need for Admission Control
7.2 Performance Under Asymmetric Packet Arrival Rates
7.3 Calculating the Admission Condition
7.4 Performance of Admission Control
Summary and Further Reading
III Multi-Cluster Networks
8 Cluster InterconnectionWith Master-Slave Bridges
8.1 Analysis of Bridge Operation
8.2 Markov Chain Model for A Single Node
8.3 Performance of the Network
8.4 Network with a Single Source Cluster/Bridge
8.5 Network with Two Source Clusters/Bridges
8.6 Modeling the Transmission Medium and Packet Service Times
9 Equalization of Cluster Lifetimes
9.1 Modeling the Clusters
9.2 Distributed Activity Management
9.3 Energy Consumption in Interconnected Clusters
9.4 Performance of activity management
10 Cluster Interconnection with Slave-Slave Bridges_
10.1 Operation of the SS Bridge
10.2 Markov Chain Model for the SS Bridge
10.3 Markov Chain for Non-Bridge Nodes
10.4 Performance Evaluation
10.5 To Acknowledge or Not To Acknowledge: The CSMA-CA Bridge
10.6 Thou Shalt Not Acknowledge: The GTS Bridge
10.7 Modeling the Transmission Medium and Packet Service Times
Summary and Further Reading
IV Security
11 Security in 802.15.4 Specification
11.1 Security Services
11.2 Auxiliary Security Header
11.3 Securing and Unsecuring Frames
11.4 Attacks
12 The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing
12.1 Analytical Model of a Generic Key Update Algorithm
12.2 Analysis of the Node Buffer
12.3 Success Probabilities
12.4 Key Update in a Multi-Cluster Network
12.5 Cluster Lifetime
12.6 Evaluation of Lifetimes and Populations
Summary and Further Reading_
V Appendices
A An Overview of ZigBee
A.1 ZigBee Functionality
A.2 Device Roles
A.3 Network Topologies and Routing
A.4 Security
B Probability generating functions and Laplace transforms
Bibliography
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Personal communication service systems -- Standards.
Wireless LANs.
Bluetooth technology.