Performance comparison between slotted IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.1 lah in IoT based applications

Author

Olyaei, Behnam Badihi ; Pirskanen, Juho ; Raeesi, Orod ; Hazmi, Ali ; Valkama, Mikko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

337

Abstract

In this paper, we present a performance comparison between IEEE 802.15.4 which specifies the physical and media access control layers for low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs) like ZigBee, and IEEE 802.11ah, a new global WLAN standard using sub-1 GHz frequency band, in terms of throughput and energy consumption. Both standards are targeting low power applications with relatively high number of nodes as in IoT and M2M applications. The simulations results demonstrate the better performance of IEEE 802.11ah throughput mainly in congested networks. However in particular cases, the IEEE 802.15.4 outperforms the IEEE 802.11ah from energy consumption point of view.

Keywords

Internet of Things; Zigbee; carrier sense multiple access; wireless LAN; CSMA-CA; IoT based applications; LR-WPAN; M2M applications; ZigBee; bandwidth 1 GHz; congested networks; energy consumption; fairness measure; global WLAN standard; low power applications; low-rate wireless personal area networks; media access control layers; performance comparison; physical access control layers; slotted IEEE 802.11ah; slotted IEEE 802.15.4; throughput; Energy consumption; Fairness measure; IEEE 802.11ah; IEEE 802.15.4; IoT; Slotted CSMA/CA; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

2160-4886

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiMOB.2013.6673381

Filename

6673381