Title :
Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Underwater Sensor Networks
Author :
Xiao, Yang ; Peng, Miao ; Gibson, John ; Xie, Geoffrey G. ; Du, Ding-Zhu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Abstract :
This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of medium access control (MAC) protocols for particular underwater multi-hop sensor networks under a fair-access criterion requiring that sensors have an equal rate of underwater frame delivery to a base station. Tight upper bounds on network utilization and tight lower bounds on minimum time between samples are derived for fixed linear topology. The paper also examines the implication of the end-to-end performance bounds regarding the traffic rate and sensing time interval of individual sensors.
Keywords :
access protocols; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; fair-access criterion; fixed linear topology; medium access control protocols; network utilization; traffic rate; underwater multihop sensor networks; underwater sensor networks; Access protocols; Acoustic sensors; Base stations; Computer science; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Relays; Sensor arrays; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic; Underwater; limits; sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing, 2009. ICPP '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4961-3
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-3918
DOI :
10.1109/ICPP.2009.32
