Research on the Reliability of MAC Protocols for Multi-radio Sensor Networks

Author

Guo, Yahong ; Zhang, Desheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Heilongjiang Univ., Harbin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

410

Lastpage

413

Abstract

In this paper, the concept of multi-radio sensor networks is introduced, and the reliability for multi-radio MAC protocol is researched extensively, via establishing a probability model of reliability. To be specific, the reliability of MAC protocols for multi-radio nodes are studies from single-hop and multi-hop, respectively. Furthermore, the upper and lower bounds of these reliabilities are provided. Lastly, the performance rate between single-radio and multi-radio MAC protocols is proposed. The experiment results show that the reliability of multi-radio MAC protocols is much higher than that of single-radio MAC protocol. In addition, the experiment results roughly coincide with theoretical analysis.

Keywords

access protocols; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; multiradio MAC protocols; multiradio sensor networks; reliability; single-radio MAC protocol; wireless sensor networks; Analytical models; Computer network reliability; Media Access Protocol; Reliability theory; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Signal Processing and Applications (PCSPA), 2010 First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8043-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4180-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCSPA.2010.105

Filename

5635620