Queueing Analysis of Polling Based Wireless MAC Protocols with Sleep-Wake Cycles

Author

Yang, Haiming ; Sikdar, Biplab

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

Volume

60

Issue

9

fYear

2012

fDate

9/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2427

Lastpage

2433

Abstract

While decentralized medium access control (MAC) protocols are more popular in wireless environments, cluster based sensor networks are particularly amenable to centralized, polling based protocols. In this paper we present an analytic model to evaluate the performance of polling based MAC protocols for wireless networks in terms of the packet delay, buffer overflow rates and energy consumption. We show that polling based protocols can outperform popular decentralized MAC protocols. Simulation results are presented to validate our model and conclusions.

Keywords

access protocols; performance evaluation; queueing theory; radio networks; cluster based sensor networks; decentralized MAC protocols; decentralized medium access control protocols; energy consumption; performance evaluation; polling based wireless MAC protocols; queueing analysis; sleep-wake cycles; wireless environments; wireless networks; Analytical models; Data communication; Delay; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Schedules; MAC protocols; performance evaluation; queuing analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2012.071312.090245

Filename

6242366