TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental evaluation of beacon scheduling mechanisms for multihop IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks
AU - Villaverde, Berta Carballido
AU - De Paz Alberola, Rodolfo
AU - Rea, Susan
AU - Pesch, Dirk
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Recently, several scheduling techniques to enable multihop communications in the beacon enabled mode of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed. Using the beacon enabled mode allows node synchronization and hence energy savings which is an important concern in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, and to the best of our knowledge, current available scheduling techniques have not been formally compared. This makes it difficult to decide which technique gives a better performance with regard to different WSN scenarios or applications. In this paper, we compare the two most popular methods for beacon enabled multihop IEEE 802.15.4 WSNs for different scenarios and performance parameters. Based on our findings, we propose recommendations for the use of each scheduling technique.
AB - Recently, several scheduling techniques to enable multihop communications in the beacon enabled mode of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed. Using the beacon enabled mode allows node synchronization and hence energy savings which is an important concern in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, and to the best of our knowledge, current available scheduling techniques have not been formally compared. This makes it difficult to decide which technique gives a better performance with regard to different WSN scenarios or applications. In this paper, we compare the two most popular methods for beacon enabled multihop IEEE 802.15.4 WSNs for different scenarios and performance parameters. Based on our findings, we propose recommendations for the use of each scheduling technique.
KW - Beacon scheduling
KW - Evaluation
KW - IEEE802.15.4
KW - Multihop
KW - OPNET
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77957934082
U2 - 10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2010.42
DO - 10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2010.42
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:77957934082
SN - 9780769540962
T3 - Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2010
SP - 226
EP - 231
BT - Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2010
T2 - 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2010
Y2 - 18 July 2010 through 25 July 2010
ER -