Scheduling for Data Collection in Multi-hop IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Networks

This paper is to develop data collection mechanisms in multi-hop IEEE 802.15.4e Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) networks. While scheduling, transmission link selection is considered based on the limitations of transmission conflict and transmission interference in ZigBee network topologies. Three scheduling algorithms for data collection are proposed. Furthermore, experiments are made for evaluating the performance of the proposed data scheduling mechanisms for multi-hop IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH networks.