TITLE:
Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network Based on OPNET
AUTHORS:
Yi Sun, Yue Sun, Peng Xu, Haocheng Liu
KEYWORDS:
Wireless Sensor Network; OPNET; IEEE802.15.4; Performance
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.5 No.3C,
October
7,
2013
ABSTRACT: The wireless sensor network is a new hot spot in the
field of wireless network. Compared with other network technology, wireless
sensor network has less communication protocols, mainly including Wireless
HART, ISA100.11a, IEEE1451, and ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4. IEEE802.15.4 was designed
for short-range, low-complexity, low-power, low-rate and low-cost
wireless network which provides two-way wireless communication technology [1].
In this paper, the performance of IEEE 802.15.4 is analyzed based on OPNET
simulator. The simulation result indicates the influence of ACK mechanism and
different network load on the system performance,i.e. end-to-end delay,
packet reception ratio and throughout of node, which provides an important
theoretical basis for the construction of actual network.