Title: Real-time admission control in 802.15.4 sensor clusters

Authors: Jelena Misic, Shairmina Shafi, Vojislav B. Misic

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. ' Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. ' Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Abstract: The problem of admission control is considered in a beacon-enabled 802.15.4 network. The network coordinator decides to admit or reject a new node on the basis of the analytical model of the packet service time, using the number of nodes in a cluster, packet arrival rate and packet size as independent variables. Simulation experiments confirm the validity of the chosen admission control algorithm, which is shown to provide a slightly conservative estimate with respect to the ideal condition.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSN; wireless networks; sensor networks; medium access control; MAC; admission control; activity management; sensor clusters; real time control; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2006.010832

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2006 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.34 - 40

Published online: 06 Sep 2006 *

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