Paper Info
Title
Maximizing area throughput in clustered wireless sensor networks
Abstract
In this paper we present a mathematical model to study a multi-sink Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Both sensors and sinks are assumed to be Poisson distributed in a given finite domain. Sinks send periodic queries, and each sensor transmits its sample to a sink, selected among those that are audible, thus creating a clustered network. Our aim is to describe how the Area Throughput, defined as the amount of samples per unit of time successfully transmitted to the sinks from the given area, depends on the density of sensors and the query interval. We jointly account for radio channel, Physical (PHY), Medium Access Control (MAC) and Network (NET) aspects (i.e., different network topologies, packet collisions, power losses and radio channel behaviour), and we compare the performance of two different simple data aggregation strategies. Performance is evaluated by varying the traffic offered to the network (i.e., the density of sensors deployed), the packet size, and, by considering IEEE 802.15.4 as a reference case, the number of Guaranteed Time Slots allocated, and the Superframe Order. The mathematical model shows how the Area Throughput can be optimized.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/JSAC.2010.100924
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless channels,wireless sensor networks,IEEE 802.15.4,clustered wireless sensor networks,data aggregation strategies,maximizing area throughput,medium access control,radio channel,Connectivity,Data Aggregation,IEEE 802.15.4,MAC,Multiple Sinks,Wireless Sensor Networks
Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Superframe,Real-time computing,Network topology,Access control,PHY,Throughput,Wireless sensor network,Data aggregator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
7
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.54
26
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Verdone153861.36
Flavia Fabbri290.54
Chiara Buratti343043.39