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IEEE802.15.4 Performance in Various WSNs Applications

Authors:
Marwa Salayma
Wail Mardini
Yaser Khamayseh
Muneer Bani Yassein

Keywords: Wireless sensor networks; IEEE802.15.4; Beacon enabled; Arrival rate; Superframe structure; Energy consumption

Abstract:
IEEE802.15.4 is a standard proposed to support physical and MAC layers for low data rate Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications. It provides features that allow diverse WSN applications to work at reduced energy consumption in low cost. These applications can be classified according to the arrival rate of the surrounding phenomena and according to the duty cycle. This paper investigates three WSN applications with different arrival rates and different duty cycles (100% and 50%). This paper performs intensive simulation analysis on seven network scenarios with different number of nodes. The scenarios are evaluated in terms of energy consumption, average end-to-end delay and throughput. The obtained results reveal that, irrespective of application type, both average delay and throughput behaviors vary directly, whereas energy consumption varies inversely. Results also revealed that as the duty cycle increases, both average delay and throughput improve. Improving one of the two metrics, by just increasing the duty cycle, assures enhancing the other metric, accordingly.

Pages: 139 to 144

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-296-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013