Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes

Hannah Brunner; Rainer Hofmann; Markus Schuß; Jakob Link; Matthias Hollick; Carlo Alberto Boano; Kay Uwe Römer

doi:10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014

Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes

Hannah Brunner, Rainer Hofmann, Markus Schuß, Jakob Link, Matthias Hollick, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Uwe Römer

Institute of Technical Informatics (4480)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in cross-technology communication, its application to real-world systems is still limited, as existing schemes are mostly unidirectional and technology-specific. The lack of generic solutions as well as the complexity of their integration reduces the applicability in a broader scope. In this paper, we propose a solution to augment Wi-Fi, BLE, and ZigBee devices with the ability to transmit and receive cross-technology broadcast frames alongside their existing
functionality. After experimentally evaluating the performance of our solution on a variety of hardware platforms, we leverage it to build a gateway-free smart home, where a smartphone can simultaneously control heterogeneous smart objects. The
smart objects, which include an off-the-shelf ZigBee light bulb and a BLE-enabled door lock from different vendors, perform cross-technology communication while retaining their original functionality and can maintain duty-cycled operations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665439299
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems: DCOSS 2021 - Virtuell, Cyprus Duration: 14 Jul 2021 → 16 Jul 2021 https://dcoss.org/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021

Conference

Conference	17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Abbreviated title	DCOSS 2021
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Virtuell
Period	14/07/21 → 16/07/21
Internet address	https://dcoss.org/

Keywords

Cross-technology communication
IoT
Nexmon
Smart door lock
Smart light bulb
BLE
IEEE 802.15.4
Wi-Fi
ZigBee
Broadcom bcm43
Raspberry Pi
Nexus 6P
X-Burst

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Instrumentation
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

Access to Document

10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014

http://www.carloalbertoboano.com/documents/brunner21smarthome.pdf

Cite this

Brunner, H., Hofmann, R., Schuß, M., Link, J., Hollick, M., Boano, C. A., & Römer, K. U. (2021). Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes. In Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021 (pp. 1-9). (Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021). https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014

Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes. / Brunner, Hannah; Hofmann, Rainer; Schuß, Markus et al.
Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021. 2021. p. 1-9 (Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Brunner, H, Hofmann, R, Schuß, M, Link, J, Hollick, M, Boano, CA & Römer, KU 2021, Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes. in Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021. Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021, pp. 1-9, 17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Virtuell, Cyprus, 14/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014

Brunner H, Hofmann R, Schuß M, Link J, Hollick M, Boano CA et al. Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes. In Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021. 2021. p. 1-9. (Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021). doi: 10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00014

Brunner, Hannah ; Hofmann, Rainer ; Schuß, Markus et al. / Leveraging Cross-Technology Broadcast Communication to build Gateway-Free Smart Homes. Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021. 2021. pp. 1-9 (Proceedings - 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOS 2021).

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