Paper Info
Title
Empirical evaluation of adapting IEEE 802.15.4 contention windows for maximum performance
Abstract
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies the most recommended medium access control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The contention-based access scheme of the MAC is driven by a Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA-CA) algorithm. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the CSMA-CA algorithm for indoor WSNs by using an experimental testbed. We set up trials to test the default parameters of the IEEE 802.15.4 for saturated and unsaturated conditions of arriving packets. In particular, we demonstrate that the experimental results accurately match the predictions of an analytical model for the CSMA-CA algorithm, though the latter assumes ideal transmission over the wireless medium. Finally, we show that data delivery ratio and throughput could be improved by opting during the contention for different window sizes compared to the default values of the standard specification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/PIMRC.2012.6362793
Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Zigbee,access protocols,carrier sense multiple access,indoor radio,wireless sensor networks,CSMA-CA algorithm,IEEE 802.15.4 contention windows,MAC protocol,carrier sense multiple access,collision avoidance algorithm,contention-based access scheme,indoor WSN,medium access control protocol,wireless sensor networks
Network allocation vector,Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance for Wireless,Media access control,IEEE 802.11e-2005,IEEE 802.1X,Inter-Access Point Protocol,Computer science,IEEE 802.11s,Computer network,Real-time computing,IEEE 802.15
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2166-9570 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-2568-4
978-1-4673-2568-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alvaro Monsalve100.34
Rachel Cardell-Oliver227133.25
A. Datta3191.48
Christof Huebner400.34