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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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336 <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Sensor</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>is tested. CBR traffic is generated on the source nodes <strong>and</strong> is routed to theBS via OEDSR (Ratnaraj et al. 2006). The nodes internally provide 38.4kbps throughput to the 802.15.4 module. There is no data aggregation, ordata fusion, performed yet in the network because the considered applicationrequires data from independent locations, whereas the proposedscenario is a good test for queuing schemes for testing fairness. Due tohardware limitations of the 802.15.4 module, interfacing the back off intervaltime slots are constrained to a minimum of 15 msec. This limits theoverall performance of the implementation; however, the issue can beaddressed in future work using the Chipcon CC2420.Testing of the hardware implementation is now discussed. The resultswere obtained by use of a star topology with five source nodes <strong>and</strong> asingle CH. CBR traffic is generated at each source node, <strong>and</strong> the initialweight of each flow is equal to 1/5 <strong>and</strong> a value of = 0.4, <strong>and</strong> = 0.6. Otherparameters include SF = 0.032 <strong>and</strong> the packet length of maximum 100bytes with an 88-byte data payload. During testing, the BS is used torecord network activity for analysis. Performance of the ADFS implementationis evaluated using the exponential back off scheme <strong>and</strong> drop-tailqueuing. A comparison of these two methods shows the performanceincrease in the ADFS enabled network.The ADFS scheduling scheme takes into account the weight of the packets<strong>and</strong> proportionally allocates b<strong>and</strong>width to the flows. In contrast, the networkswithout ADFS functionality lack the ability to differentiate QoS inthis manner. Thus, poor fairness is observed in networks without ADFS.In Table 7.3, the results for throughput <strong>and</strong> FI are shown. In case ofADFS implementation, the throughput is higher for every flow becauseit is able to maintain a steady <strong>and</strong> proportional traffic, thus reducing bufferoverflows. The reference scheme is not able to distribute the availableb<strong>and</strong>width proportionally to all flows; thus, the buffer overflows occurmore often than in case of ADFS protocol. Overall, the ADFS networkachieves a 13.3% increase in the throughput over the first-in-first-out(FIFO) queued scheme.Moreover, a larger FI value is observed for the ADFS implementationthan for the reference scheme. The ADFS scheme allocates the resourcesproportionally to the packet weight, thus adapting to a changing channel<strong>and</strong> network state.TABLE 7.3Throughput <strong>and</strong> Fairness Comparison ResultsFlow 1[kB/sec]Flow 2[kB/sec]Flow 3[kB/sec]Flow 4[kB/sec]Flow 5[kB/sec] Overall FIADFS 88.8 85.1 84.7 81.7 81.0 84.3 0. 9989FIFO 83.8 67.7 76.7 68.7 75.3 74.4 0. 9938

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