CSMA-MAC Performance Evaluation for WSN Applications

Author

Antonopoulos, Christos ; Prayati, Aggeliki ; Kerasiotis, Fotis ; Papadopoulos, George

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2009

fDate

18-23 June 2009

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

This paper studies the MAC layer performance in demanding wireless sensor networks. The requirements for wireless MAC are discussed based on a prominent CSMA-based MAC protocol evaluation varying critical network parameters. The objective is to investigate the current radio access technologies suitability for wireless sensor networked applications. The channel access mechanisms are analyzed in more detail, important performance parameters are derived and their behavior in different traffic scenarios is investigated through simulation based analysis.

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; wireless sensor networks; CSMA-MAC performance evaluation; WSN applications; channel access mechanisms; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Analytical models; Application software; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Performance analysis; Sampling methods; Throughput; Wireless sensor networks; CSMA-MAC; WSN applications; performance evaluation; simulation process;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2009. SENSORCOMM '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens, Glyfada

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3669-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2009.10

Filename

5210963