Effect of Layers on Simulation of Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Islam, Obidul ; Hussain, Sajid

Author_Institution

Acadia Univ., Wolfville

fYear

2007

fDate

4-9 March 2007

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

64

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of simulation of lower layers on performance evaluation of energy-efficient multi- hop routing techniques designed to maximize network lifetime. A customized simulator is used to show the simulation results where the effect of lower layers, packet collisions, and overhearing is ignored. Then, an open-source simulator, J-Sim, is used to analyze protocols while considering MAC layer and packet collisions. The simulation results show that customized simulator gives very different performance evaluation as compared to J-Sim that provides the complete protocol stack.

Keywords

routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; energy-efficient multihop routing technique; network lifetime maximization; protocol analysis; wireless sensor network simulation; Base stations; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Open source software; Power supplies; Routing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2007. ICWMC '07. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guadeloupe

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2796-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2796-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWMC.2007.36

Filename

4138170