Proposal of Capacity Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks with Multi-Hop Transmissions and Hidden Nodes

Yun WEN  Kazuyuki OZAKI  Hiroshi FUJITA  Teruhisa NINOMIYA  Makoto YOSHIDA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E98-B   No.9   pp.1749-1757
Publication Date: 2015/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.1749
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Emerging Technologies on Ambient Sensor Networks toward Future Generation)
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Keyword: 
wireless sensor networks,  multi-hop transmission,  capacity analysis,  zone division,  hidden nodes,  CSMA/CA,  

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Summary: 
Wireless sensor networks play an important role in several industries. Ad-hoc networks with multi-hop transmissions are considered suitable for wireless sensor networks because of their high scalability and low construction cost. However, a lack of centralized control makes it difficult to respond to congestion when system capacity is exceeded. Therefore, the analysis of system capacity is a critical issue for system design. In this paper, we propose a novel zone division model to analyze the capacity of multi-hop wireless sensor networks using carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance protocols. We divide the one-hop area to a gateway (GW) into two zones: an outer zone, where access nodes (ANs) can relay packets from multi-hop ANs, and an inner zone where ANs cannot relay packets. Using this approach, we calculate the packet loss for each zone to estimate the capacity, considering the difference in the communication range of the GW and ANs, as well as the collision with hidden nodes. Comparisons with simulation results and the conventional method show that our model achieves higher estimation accuracy.