QoS in IoT Networks based on Link Quality Prediction

The success of the Internet of Things (IoT) depends on the ability to provide reliable communication to the billions of devices that are used in many applications. In essence, estimating the quality of wireless links ensures the optimization of several protocols, reduces the end-to-end latency, and increases the reliability and the network lifetime. In this paper, we study the link quality in the Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) network by analyzing the received signal strength (RSSI) and error rates. The objective is to understand the temporal properties of these parameters which is important to select the appropriate channels for the critical applications and to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) of the network. We apply machine learning techniques to a real dataset collected from a testbed IoT network deployed at Grenoble, France. We define five classes and present a classification of the 16 channels by comparing the performances of KNN (k-Nearest Neighbor) and LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) algorithms.