Design of a Test Bed for Performance Evaluation in a Wireless Sensor Network

Author

Gao, Robert X. ; Boscardin, Tristan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 April 2006

Firstpage

341

Lastpage

346

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a test bed consisting of multiple homogenous and adaptable wireless sensor nodes for performance evaluation of two commonly used medium access control (MAC) protocols. Integration of intelligence into each sensor node through embedded control algorithm residing in a microprocessor on each sensor node allowed for modularity and self-monitoring of the sensor nodes. It further enabled quantitative comparison of the two protocols in terms of energy consumption of the sensor nodes when operating within a wireless sensor network (WSN). Experiments have shown that the test bed provides an effective tool for quantitative evaluation of the performance of MAC protocols

Keywords

access protocols; automatic test equipment; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocols; adaptable wireless sensor nodes; communication protocol; embedded control algorithm; energy consumption; energy efficiency; medium access control protocols; test bed; wireless sensor network; Access protocols; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Intelligent sensors; Media Access Protocol; Scalability; Testing; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Sensor network; communication protocol; energy efficiency; test bed design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Sorrento

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9359-7

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2006.328468

Filename

4124340