Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol for WSNs in burst error channels

Author

Wijetunge, S. ; Gunawardana, U. ; Liyanapathirana, R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

286

Lastpage

291

Abstract

A three-dimensional discrete-time Markov Chain model is applied to analyse the performance of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol under burst channel errors. Real world wireless sensor network conditions including unsaturated traffic, frame retransmission and acknowledgement (ACK) frame transmission are considered for the analysis. The system performance is evaluated in terms of aggregate network throughput, average power consumption per node, frame delivery ratio, and bytes-per-Joule capacity per node. Analytical results are validated through ns - 2 simulations. The effects of varying channel conditions and frame arrival rate on the performance of the system are also discussed.

Keywords

IEEE standards; Markov processes; access protocols; telecommunication channels; telecommunication standards; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol; WSN; acknowledgement frame transmission; burst error channels; frame retransmission; three-dimensional discrete-time Markov Chain model; unsaturated traffic; wireless sensor network; Analytical models; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Power demand; Sensors; Throughput; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 2011 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1294-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2011.6089750

Filename

6089750