# Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols and Applications
## 2 Brief Review of the Published Articles  
The first paper [1] on the network layer presents an adaptive real-time routing protocol for an (\(m\), \(k\))-firm real-time model. The model defines the real-time requirement that at least \(m\) out of any \(k\) consecutive messages from a real-time stream must meet their deadlines to ensure an adequate Quality of Service (QoS). The paper proposes a new adaptive path selection and traffic shaping algorithm. The evaluation in OPNET shows that the proposed scheme can reduce the dynamic failure regardless of the background traffic while reducing the energy consumption. The next two papers are relevant to Media Access Control (MAC) sub-layer. To provide a remedy for the joint problem of the low-access efficiency and the interference diffusion in high-density deployment of IWSNs, the second paper [2] on MAC (Media Access Control) proposes a spatial group-based multi-user Full Duplex OFDMA (GFDO) protocol. While the theoretical analysis derives the average number of nodes in an access channel, system saturation throughput, and area throughput, the simulation in an NS2 simulator supports the theoretical analysis and shows the efficiency of the proposed protocol. Another paper [3] related to the MAC sub-layer issue proposes a novel distributed scheduling scheme for an ad-hoc network. The proposed scheme consists of two steps of reallocation procedures: intra-node and inter-node. The intra-node slot scheduling reallocates the packets in priority-based multiple queues using a self-fairness index to increase the throughput and delay, while the inter-node scheduling reallocates slots between neighboring nodes to increase fairness. The simulation study with a Java-based network simulator shows that the proposed scheme can adjust the packet delivery performance according to a predefined weight factor and outperform the conventional algorithms in throughput and delay. Time synchronization is another important research area in IWSNs. The paper on the time synchronization issue proposes an energy-efficient reference node selection (EERS) algorithm [4]. EERS minimizes the number of connected reference nodes and keeps a minimal number of hops. The evaluation in an experimental network with 25 real hardware platforms shows EERS needs fewer messages (i.e., less energy consumption) than the existing techniques such as R-Sync [5], FADS [6], and LPSS [7]. In addition, the simulation study with MATLAB for a larger scale network evaluation shows that the proposed protocol provides energy efficiency without losing the accuracy of the time synchronization. There are two papers related to the popular IWSN standards: IEEE 802.15.4 and ISA 100.11a. The first paper [8] considers the event monitoring in hazards and disaster detection in a large area with the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee standard. This paper proposes a dynamic reconfiguration mechanism of cluster-tree IWSNs. The proposed algorithm can dynamically reconfigure large-scale IEEE 802.15.4 cluster-tree IWSNs to assign communication resources to the overloaded branches of the tree based on the accumulated network load generated by each of the sensor nodes. The simulation assessment with CT-Sim [9] shows that the proposed scheme can guarantee the required quality of service level for the dynamic reconfiguration of cluster-tree networks. The last paper [10] presents a wireless network control system (WNCS) composed of ISA 100.11a-based field devices (i.e., sensor nodes), a network manager, a controller, and a wired actuator. The system controls the liquid level in the tank of the coupled tank system. In order to assess the influence of the sensor link failure on the control loop, the controller calculates the link stability and chooses an alternative link in case of instability in the current link. Preliminary experimental tests of WNCS performance shows that the link stability factor allows a prediction of the change in the control system error.