An Investigation of CTP Use for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a very important research domain whereby civil infrastructure is monitored. Using wireless technologies can boost SHM by providing the level of autonomous operation that is essential for these tasks. Wireless routing, with its subset, geographic routing, is an i...

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Published in:CivilEng 2022-10, Vol.3 (4), p.946-959
Main Authors: Spyrou, Evangelos D., Kappatos, Vassilios
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bridges
Code Division Multiple Access
collection tree protocol
cooperative communication
Data integrity
Energy efficiency
expected transmission count
Infrastructure
Internet of Things
Packet transmission
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Power
Quality of service
Radio frequency identification
relay
Remote monitoring
Sensors
Software
Structural health monitoring
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
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Summary:Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a very important research domain whereby civil infrastructure is monitored. Using wireless technologies can boost SHM by providing the level of autonomous operation that is essential for these tasks. Wireless routing, with its subset, geographic routing, is an important procedure that needs to be optimised, in order to lead packets to the basestation. Occasionally, routing is susceptible to interference and collisions due to a large number of connected devices. This fact led to cooperative transmission; cooperative networks are the ones that utilise relays to accomplish the transmission of packets; thus, resulting in link quality as well as throughput increase. In this paper, we investigate the Collection Tree Protocol (CTP) to show that it can be cooperative when used in an SHM for civil infrastructure monitoring applications giving a geographical essence to the routing protocol. We do that by exploiting the fact that the CTP’s mechanism uses its tree formation for a node to transmit to the best link quality parents. An example of a cooperative model to show that it may be applied to the protocol is given. Further, Indriya testbed results of direct and cooperative transmissions are given to strengthen the case of this work, with which a scenario where the CTP exhibits better link quality when using a relay is given. A practical addition is suggested, whereby an extra field in the packet struct is proposed, which will provide the CTP with further strength to changing conditions and direct communication loss.
ISSN:2673-4109
2673-4109
DOI:10.3390/civileng3040053