Performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.11 MAC for mobile wireless sensor networks

Author

Zhong Ping ; Shi Jianghong ; Zeng Zhihong ; Zhang Dezhong ; Zhou Liping ; Chen Huihuang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen, China

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1094

Lastpage

1098

Abstract

With application development of wireless sensor networks, there are some scenarios exited mobile nodes. This motivates the research towards the mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs). IEEE 802.11 standard medium access control (MAC) is designed mainly for wireless local and metropolitan area network and used in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. Its capability whether to suit MWSN has not yet been discovered. This study is to analyze and evaluate the suitability of IEEE 802.11 MAC in MWSN. The simulation is simulated on newly released Network Simulator NS-3. By means of some examples, the results show the energy consumption, delay and packet delivery ratio performance.

Keywords

WiMax; access protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; packet radio networks; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.11 MAC; IEEE 802.11 standard medium access control; MWSN; energy consumption; mobile ad-hoc network; mobile node; mobile wireless sensor network; network simulator NS-3; packet delivery ratio performance; performance evaluation; wireless local area network; wireless metropolitan area network; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.11; Medium Access Control; Network Simulator NS-3; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2011 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9717-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSE.2011.6028825

Filename

6028825