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This coexistence produces interferences and transmission errors which require appropriate mechanisms to manage retransmissions. Nevertheless, these mechanisms increase the network latency and overhead due to the retransmissions. Thus, the loss of data packets and the measures to handle them produce an undesirable drop in the QoS and hinder the overall robustness and energy efficiency of the network. Interference avoidance mechanisms, such as frequency hopping techniques, reduce the need for retransmissions due to interferences but they are often tailored to specific scenarios and are not easily adapted to other use cases. On the other hand, the total absence of interference avoidance mechanisms introduces a security risk because the communication channel may be intentionally attacked and interfered with to hinder or totally block it. In this paper we propose a method for supporting the design of communication solutions under dynamic channel interference conditions and we implement dynamic management policies for frequency hopping technique and channel selection at runtime. The method considers several standard frequency hopping techniques and quality metrics, and the quality and status of the available frequency channels to propose the best combined solution to minimize the side effects of interferences. A simulation tool has been developed and used in this work to validate the method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18020657","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,23]],"date-time":"2018-02-23T12:41:40Z","timestamp":1519389700000},"page":"657","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["A Method for Dynamically Selecting the Best Frequency Hopping Technique in Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Erlantz","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez de Gorostiza","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics and Communications Unit, IK4-Tekniker, Calle I\u00f1aki Goenaga 5, 20600 Eibar, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5299-3954","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jorge","family":"Berzosa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics and Communications Unit, IK4-Tekniker, Calle I\u00f1aki Goenaga 5, 20600 Eibar, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jon","family":"Mabe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics and Communications Unit, IK4-Tekniker, Calle I\u00f1aki Goenaga 5, 20600 Eibar, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1455-1703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roberto","family":"Corti\u00f1as","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science Faculty, University of the Basque Country UPV\/EHU, Paseo M. 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