Study on performance evaluation method based on measurement for wireless sensor network
08 Dec 2009-pp 201-206
TL;DR: The new performance evaluation criteria system for wireless sensor network are defined, such as residual energy, network lifetime and coverage degree, and a synthetic multi-criteria performance evaluation method based on criteria weight is put forward, with the integration of mathematical modeling and measurement approach.
Abstract: Due to non-uniform network architectures and different kinds of performance requirements in different applications, a universal method of performance evaluation for wireless sensor network is still lacking at present. The new performance evaluation criteria system for wireless sensor network are defined in this paper, such as residual energy, network lifetime and coverage degree. And a synthetic multi-criteria performance evaluation method based on criteria weight is put forward, with the integration of mathematical modeling and measurement approach. Regarded the path as a basic performance evaluation unit, a multiple measurement criteria matrix is established to calculate a synthetic performance value of the path, in which the criteria weight can be set according to the different applications. The simulation results show that network performance of wireless sensor network can be achieved efficiently with our method, in which differences in applications can be shielded. And the method can be applied to all kinds of wireless sensor networks.
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TL;DR: 'hidden node' problem in high-rate traffic as a soruce for performance degradation and proposed slot-based channel access as the potential solution and proposed ad hoc wireless sensor networks (AD-WSNs) paradigm as part of the extension to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard.
Abstract: Thispaperpresents apreliminary performance investigation oftherecently released IEEE802.15.4 standard focusing onmultiple sources andmulti-hop peer-to-peer wire- lesssensor networks. Thisstandard wasdeveloped towork inall-wireless environment supporting either peer-to-peer or starnetwork topology. Sincetherelease ofIEEE802.15.4, several efforts weremadetostudyitsperformance where simple star network topology wasthemainfocus. Thisliterature attempts toextend existing efforts butfocuses onevaluating the performance ofpeer-to-peer networks onasmallscale basis usingns2simulator. We analyze theperformance basedon commonly knownmetrics suchasthroughput, packet delivery ratio, andaverage delay. Inaddition, wepropose adhocwireless sensor networks (AD-WSNs) paradigm aspartoftheextension totheIEEE802.15.4 standard. Fromtheexperiments conducted weidentified 'hidden node' problem inhigh-rate traffic asa soruce forperformance degradation andproposed slot-based channel access asthepotential solution. Keywords-IEEE 802.15.4, adhocnetworks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal areanetworks
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