Comparison of different Broadcast Schemes for Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper evaluates various broadcast schemes in multihop wireless sensor networks using mathematical models, focusing on collision reduction and throughput analysis to inform future multicast communication applications.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of broadcast schemes based on physical carrier sensing and throughput calculations, which is a novel approach for multihop sensor networks.

Findings

Physical carrier sensing reduces collisions.

Throughput varies across broadcast schemes.

Mathematical models effectively predict performance.

Abstract

In this paper, we present the performance of different broadcast schemes for multihop sensor networks based on mathematical modeling. In near future many applications will demand multicast (Broadcast) communication feature from the sensor networks. This broadcast feature does not use virtual carrier sensing but relies on physical carrier sensing to reduce collision. For this paper, we analyze the different broadcast schemes for multihop wireless sensor networks and also calculated the achievable throughput.