Low-power network design: work hard, play hard

Abstract

Competing in a well-known competition in a field that you have no experience in can be hard for sure. In this semester thesis, we describe how we managed to design a low-power wireless protocol for a sensor network in less than 3 months of part-time work. Baloo is a novel protocol design framework, which offers an abstraction layer from the underlying hardware and enables fast protocol prototyping. Using Baloo, our goal was to create a protocol to compete in the annual EWSN dependability competition by borrowing different design ideas from various protocols described in literature.