Towards new routing solutions for wireless industrial networks

Routing in wireless multi-hop networks has been addressed by numerous research works so far. However, the increased usage of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and industrial communication has set even higher goals regarding Quality-of-Service (QoS) and energy consumption. There are hardly works which combine both reliable and in time packet delivery as well as energy-efficiency. In this PhD thesis we are interested in energy-efficient routing solutions under QoS constraints such as Bit-Error-Rates (smaller than 10
^-5
) and delays not bigger than several milliseconds. By means of stochastic network calculus and Gilbert-Elliott (GE) model, physical channel characteristics will be embedded in the performance definition of network routes to enable additional energy management.