Performance analysis of a wireless sensor network

Author

Ali, M. K Mehmet ; Gu, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que.

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

1166

Lastpage

1171

Abstract

In this work, we consider modeling of a wireless sensor network with a TDMA media access protocol with slot reuse. It is assumed that the nodes have two modes of operation, active and sleep modes. We model the sensor network as a Jackson network with node breakdowns. We determine the joint distribution of the queue lengths in the sensor network. From this result, we derive the probability distribution of the number of active nodes and blocking probability of node activation. Then, we present the mean packet delay, average down period of a node as well as the network throughput. Finally, we discuss how the derived results may be used in the design of sensor networks

Keywords

queueing theory; statistical distributions; time division multiple access; wireless sensor networks; TDMA media access protocol; blocking probability; mean packet delay; network throughput; probability distribution; queue lengths; wireless sensor network; Access protocols; Electric breakdown; Electronic mail; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Military computing; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Time division multiple access; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0269-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2006.1683635

Filename

1683635