Performance analysis and a proposed improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 contention access period

Zhifeng Tao; Shivendra Panwar; Daqing Gu; Jinyun Zhang

Performance analysis and a proposed improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 contention access period

Zhifeng Tao, Shivendra Panwar, Daqing Gu, Jinyun Zhang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

IEEE 802.15.4-2003 [1] was introduced to address the market need for connecting low-rate devices in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). A slotted CSMA/CA medium access control (MAC) protocol is defined in the standard to coordinate the channel access of a large number of wireless devices. In this paper, we propose a novel Markov chain for IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, which faithfully captures all the essential features of the protocol, and thus can provide valuable insight into the strengths and weaknesses of this multiple access scheme. The evaluation reveals that the double carrier sensing mechanism specified in 802.15.4 MAC is not an optimal design, and a slight modification in the protocol can result in further performance improvement in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006
Pages	1811-1818
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2006
Event	2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Apr 3 2006 → Apr 6 2006

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Name	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume	4
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511

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Other	2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	4/3/06 → 4/6/06

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General Engineering

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Performance analysis and a proposed improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 contention access period. / Tao, Zhifeng; Panwar, Shivendra; Gu, Daqing et al.
2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006. 2006. p. 1811-1818 1696571 (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 4).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Tao, Z, Panwar, S, Gu, D & Zhang, J 2006, Performance analysis and a proposed improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 contention access period. in 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006., 1696571, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, vol. 4, pp. 1811-1818, 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2006, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 4/3/06.

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