Abstract
Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are committed to bring the industry automation into the era of Industry 4.0 by providing the ubiquitous perception to improve the production efficiency. However, the proliferation of wireless devices in industrial applications makes the spectrum sharing in limited industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band a challenging problem. In this paper, it is concerned with the intrinsic impact of the evenness of spectrum usage on the spectrum sharing performance in terms of channel accessing probability, spectrum utilization, and fairness of spectrum usage. In order to explore the explicit relationship between the evenness and spectrum sharing performance, a new concept of equilibrium is first defined to represent the achievable best evenness of spectrum usage. Then, a set of rules called local equilibrium-guided autonomous channel switching (LEQ-AutoCS) is devised, with which each accessed sensor autonomously equalizes the local channel occupations within its range of spectrum sensing without overhead on exchanging the sensors’ spectrum sensing reports. It is further proved that the equilibrium can be achieved by this concessive manner. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed LEQ-AutoCS rules provide higher utilization and fairness of spectrum usage comparing to the existing spectrum access approaches. Moreover, it is shown that LEQ-AutoCS rules assist the system to reduce the spectrum access delay to 1/2 of CSMA-based systems and 1/50 of TDMA-based systems, respectively.
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