Performance evaluation of beacon enabled IEEE 802.15.4 under NS2

Abstract

The increasing demand for real-time applications has made the Quality of Service (Qos) support for wireless sensor networks (WSN) a fairly new research framework. In this paper, we propose an extended model of the Beacon enabled IEEE 802.15.4 including the Guaranteed Time Slot GTS allocation mechanism in the aim to analyze and evaluate network performances. Series of extensive simulations were performed to analyze the impact of the Beacon Order BO and the Superframe Order SO on the network performance based on commonly known metrics. In particular, we examine data packet delivery performance and the throughput for different duty cycle rates. Also, we analyze the impact of the number of nodes on collision probability. Thus, for high number of nodes, collision becomes higher and the reachability begins to decline slightly. We discuss and compare simulation results conducted under various parameter settings to the IEEE 802.11 network.