Avoiding the Bottlenecks in the MAC Layer in 802.15.4 Low Rate WPAN

We analyze the operation of the MAC layer of an IEEE 802.15.4 compliant network cluster in the beacon enabled mode with bidirectional traffic. We identify certain issues in the standard that lead to serious performance limitations, and suggest some simple modifications of the coordinator function th...

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Published in11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'05) Vol. 2; pp. 363 - 367
Main Authors Misic, Vojislav B., Shafi, Shairmina, Misic, Jelena
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Batteries
Computer science
Degradation
Energy efficiency
Intelligent networks
Network topology
Telecommunication traffic
Throughput
Wireless personal area networks
Wireless sensor networks
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ISBN9780769522814
0769522815
ISSN1521-9097
DOI10.1109/ICPADS.2005.101

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Summary:We analyze the operation of the MAC layer of an IEEE 802.15.4 compliant network cluster in the beacon enabled mode with bidirectional traffic. We identify certain issues in the standard that lead to serious performance limitations, and suggest some simple modifications of the coordinator function that allows the network to handle higher traffic loads.
ISBN:9780769522814
0769522815
ISSN:1521-9097
DOI:10.1109/ICPADS.2005.101