A High-speed Wi-SUN FAN Network by Highly-Dense Frequency Hopping

The wireless smart ubiquitous network (Wi-SUN) field area network (FAN) attracts attention as a wireless communication standard for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Currently, frequency shift keying (FSK) defined in IEEE 802.15.4 is adopted in the physical layer of the Wi-SUN FAN. To improve the network performance toward next-generation IoT systems, a data rate enhancement scheme for FSK has been proposed. However, there is no evaluation of data rate improvement effect by adopting the data rate enhanced FSK on the transmission characteristics of the Wi-SUN FAN. Besides, introducing the data rate enhanced FSK causes the bandwidth to increase. For multiple systems to coexist in limited frequency bands, it is necessary to achieve high spectral efficiency even when the Wi-SUN FAN adopts the data rate enhanced FSK. In this paper, we evaluate the transmission characteristics of the Wi-SUN FAN adopting the high-speed FSK of 600 kbps by computer simulations. The simulation results show that the system throughput improves by 2.5 times, but the bandwidth also increases by 2.5 times compared to the existing system. Furthermore, we propose highly-dense frequency hopping based on a novel channel arrangement scheme to improve spectral efficiency and compatibility with the existing system design while the data rate enhanced FSK is adopted. The evaluation results show that the system throughput in the proposed scheme is 2.4 times of the existing system while using less than half of the bandwidth compared to the conventional channel arrangement scheme.