IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Traffic Adaptive Distributed Backoff Control Mechanism for Cluster-Based IEEE802.15.4 WSNs with Traffic Fluctuations
Kazuo MORIKatsuhiro NAITOHideo KOBAYASHI
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2012 Volume E95.B Issue 5 Pages 1702-1710

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The traffic adaptive 2-level active period control has been proposed as a traffic adaptation mechanism to handle temporal and spatial (geographical) traffic fluctuations in cluster-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) employing IEEE802.15.4 medium access control (MAC). This paper proposes a traffic adaptive distributed backoff control mechanism for cluster-based WSNs with the traffic adaptive 2-level active period control to enhance the system performance, especially transmission performance. The proposed mechanism autonomously adjusts the starting time of the backoff procedure for channel accesses in the contention access period (CAP) specified by the IEEE802.15.4 MAC, and then distributes the channel access timing over a wide range within the CAP, which can mitigate channel access congestion. The results of computer simulations show that the proposed mechanism can improve the transmission delay performance while keeping the enhancement in throughput and energy consumption at the cluster-based WSNs under non-uniform traffic environments.

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