Performance Modeling of WSN with Bursty Delivery Mode

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) usually consist of hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes scattered in a geographical area and one or multiple sink(s) collecting information. The special design and character of sensors and their applications make WSNs different from traditional networks. These characteristics pose great challenges for architecture and protocol design, performance modeling, and implementation. Accurately modeling the data generated by each sensor node is essential for correctly simulating network traffic, network congestion, interference between nodes and the energy expended by each node. Successful design leads to enhancing the overall performance of the whole of network. In this paper we analyze the performance of WSN with N-BURST traffic model. The impact of bursty traffic on the mean packet delay and buffer overflow probability is investigated analytically. We study the effects of bursty WSN traffic through simulations with three different cases. Both short-range dependency (SRD) traffic and long range dependency (LRD) traffic are simulated over different burst parameters. Finally we study the effect of pareto OFF time through simulation. The results are collected for 10 different 24 hour simulated periods in order to study and measure day-today statistical fluctuation.