Dynamic channel management for advanced, energy-efficient sensor-actor-networks

Actual research projects in the fields of wireless communication systems focus on distributed, heterogeneous architectures for advanced sensor-actor-networks (SNETs). Each subsystem provides specific capabilities for measuring or manipulating its environment. At the same time, a huge amount of sensor, status and control data has to be transmitted over different network interfaces and communication standards. During the runtime, the number and the quality of communication channels is changing dynamically. Especially in wireless multi-hop scenarios with multiple radio standards, the maintenance of stable communication paths is critical.