Performance Evaluation of XMAC and BMAC Routing Protocol under Static and Mobility Scenarios in Wireless Sensor Network

Based on application requirements, nodes are static or mobile in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Mobility poses challenges in protocol design, especially at the link layer requiring mobility adaptation algorithms to localize mobile nodes and predict link quality to be established with them. This study implements XMAC and Berkeley Media Access Control (BMAC) routing protocols to evaluate performance under WSN’s static and mobility conditions. This paper gives a comparative study of mobility-aware MAC protocols. Routing protocol performance, based on Average End to End Delay, Average Packet Delivery Ratio, Average Number of hops, and Jitter is evaluated.

Authors:

• M. V. Ramana Rao
• T. Adilakshmi

Keywords:

• Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
• Medium Access Control (MAC)
• Berkeley Media Access Control (BMAC)
• mobility.

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Christian Bettstetter ([email protected]) Technische Universit¨at
M¨unchen, Institute of Communication Networks, 80290 Munich,
Germany Hannes Hartenstein, Xavier P´erez–Costa NEC Europe,
Network Laboratories, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany