IEEE 802.15.4 Modifications and Their Impact

IEEE 802.15.4 is a popular choice for MAC/PHY protocols in low power and low data rate wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we suggest several modifications to beaconless IEEE 802.15.4 MAC operation and evaluate their impact on the performance via stochastic modeling and simulations. We found th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Goyal, W. Xie, H. Hosseini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Mobile Information Systems
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/MIS-2011-0111