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- Title
Mitigating the effect of negative link correlation on contention mechanism of MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks.
- Authors
Sharma, Neeraj; Jun, Junghyun; Pal, Sujata
- Abstract
The existence of link correlation has been empirically validated, and different exemplary works exploit the link correlation in the designing of various network protocols. In this work, the authors investigated the impact of this link correlation in contention mechanism of medium access control (MAC). They illustrated negative link correlation could deteriorate the contention mechanism designed to handle hidden terminal problems and, consequently, increase the packet collision rate between the neighbours. They also showed that negative link correlation could increase the chance of an exposed terminal problem. Therefore, ignoring negative link correlation could lead to overestimate overall network throughput and underestimate packet delay. Next, instead of designing a new contention mechanism exploiting the link correlation, they proposed a new routing tree which mitigates the negative effect of negative link correlation without altering the underlying MAC layer. They evaluated this routing tree on Indriya testbed with TelosB nodes and compared it to the minimum spanning tree based on link quality only. The results show improvement in end‐to‐end throughput and packet reception ratio at each node.
- Publication
IET Communications (Wiley-Blackwell), 2020, Vol 14, Issue 22, p4007
- ISSN
1751-8628
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1049/iet-com.2019.0947