Intelligent Security Management and Control in the IoT

5Toward Intelligent Management of Service Quality in the IoT: The Case of a Low Rate WPAN

Guillaume LE GALL¹, Georgios Z. PAPADOPOULOS¹, Mohamed-Aymen CHALOUF² and Olivier TOGNI³

¹IRISA, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France

²IRISA, University of Rennes 1, Lannion, France

³LIB, Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, Dijon, France

The Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible to connect devices with reduced processing capacities to the network, using wireless communications links. These technologies are particularly useful for improving the control and monitoring of industrial processes, as they make it possible to deploy sensors and actuators, often battery-powered ones, more easily in a production site. These objects are used to form Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), recording only the information necessary for the infrastructure while still being low cost, both with regard to energy and maintenance. However, they cover applications that are sometimes critical, or which are used in cases where an improvement in the network’s efficiency means better functioning of the process in which they are used. It is therefore important to work to improve the quality of service in such networks. To do this, there are well-known methods, such as time division and channel hopping, or more formally Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH). It is still possible build upon these techniques, such as with the PAREO method described here. In this chapter, we will first present what the IoT is ...