Title
Performance Analysis of Slotted Carrier Sense IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Layer
Abstract
Advances in low-power and low-cost sensor networks have led to solutions mature enough for use in a broad range of applications varying from health monitoring to building surveillance. The development of those applications has been stimulated by the finalization of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which defines the medium access control (MAC) and physical layer for sensor networks. One of the MAC schemes proposed is slotted carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), and this paper analyzes whether this scheme meets the design constraints of those low-power and low-cost sensor networks. The paper provides a detailed analytical evaluation of its performance in a star topology network, for uplink and acknowledged uplink traffic. Both saturated and unsaturated periodic traffic scenarios are considered. The form of the analysis is similar to that of Bianchi for IEEE 802.11 DCF only in the use of a per user Markov model to capture the state of each user at each moment in time. The key assumptions to enable this important simplification and the coupling of the per user Markov models are however different, as a result of the very different designs of the 802.15.4 and 802.11 carrier sensing mechanisms. The performance predicted by the analytical model is very close to that obtained by simulation. Throughput and energy consumption analysis is then performed by using the model for a range of scenarios. Some design guidelines are derived to set the 802.15.4 parameters as function of the network requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/TWC.2008.060057
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
detailed analytical evaluation,analytical model,mac scheme,design guideline,different design,slotted carrier sense,sensor network,medium access layer,design constraint,broad range,user markov model,performance analysis,low-cost sensor network,wireless sensor networks,markov process,physical layer,markov model,niobium,sensors,star topology network,markov processes
Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance for Wireless,Network allocation vector,Computer network,Network architecture,Network topology,Physical layer,Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance,Wireless sensor network,Mathematics,IEEE 802.15
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
9
1536-1276
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
78
3.82
7
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sofie Pollin11041113.94
M. Ergen21289.76
S. Ergen3783.82
B. Bougard41107.70
Liesbet Van Der Perre51013108.24
Ingrid Moerman62050181.69
A. Bahai71597113.90
Pravin Varaiya82543298.93
F. Catthoor989783.95