Comprehensive evaluation of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer performance with retransmissions

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3917-3932

  Faridi, Azadeh ^a   Palattella, Maria Rita ^b   Lozano, Angel ^a   Dohler, Mischa ^c   Boggia, Gennaro ^b   Grieco, Luigi Alfredo ^b   Camarda, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.15.4; medium access control (MAC) layer; multiaccess communication; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; BACKOFF DELAY; CALCULATED VALUES; COLLISION PROBABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; EMBEDDED NETWORK; IEEE 802.15.4; MAC LAYER; MARKOVIAN; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) LAYER; MULTI-ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PACKET RETRANSMISSIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; POWER CONSUMPTION; RETRANSMISSIONS; SEMIANALYTICAL APPROACH; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; ZIG-BEE;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77958107750     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2063720     Document Type: Article

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