Performance evaluation of Wireless MAC protocols Do Ambient noise, Throughput, or Protocol affect Energy consumption, Latency, or Reliability of a Wireless Sensor Network?
Rahav Dor · 2013
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are becoming prevalent and represent the next great change occurring to the Internet and our living spaces. WSN are used in the medical field, smart home and smart grid initiatives, sports training, forestry and wildlife monitoring, and numerous other disciplines. WSN deployments are expected to work for long durations on scarce energy supply and stay reliable with no maintenance. To allow WSN applications to optimize their energy consumption, reliability, or throughput this paper studies the performance characteristics of two MAC protocols, namely RI-MAC and BoX-MAC.