Evaluating Feasibility of Using Wireless Sensor Networks in a Coffee Crop Through Simulation of AODV, AOMDV, DSDV and Their Variants with 802.15.4 Mac Protocol

TL;DR

This study assesses the feasibility of deploying wireless sensor networks in coffee crops by simulating various routing protocols and MAC configurations, demonstrating that certain protocols like AOMDVMOD are suitable for real-world agricultural environments.

Contribution

It evaluates and compares multiple routing protocols with a specific MAC protocol in a coffee crop setting, introducing variants AODVMOD and AOMDVMOD for the first time.

Findings

AOMDVMOD outperforms other protocols in simulations.

Wireless sensor networks are feasible in coffee crop environments.

Simulation results support practical deployment of WSNs in agriculture.

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Networks is a network formed with sensors that have characteristics to sensor an area to extract a specific metric, depending of the application. We would like to analyse the feasibility to use sensors in a coffee crop. In this work we are evaluating routing protocols using real dimensions and characteristics of a coffee crop. We evaluate, through simulation, AODV, DSDV and AOMDV and two variants known in this work as AODVMOD and AOMDVMOD with 802.15.4 MAC Protocol. For this comparison, we defined three performance metrics: Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), End -to-End Delay and Average Energy Consumption. Simulation results show that AOMDVMOD overall, outperforms others routing protocols evaluated, showing that is possible to use WSN in a real coffee crop environment.