Authors:
Diego V. Queiroz
1
;
Ruan D. Gomes
2
and
Cesar Benavente-Peces
1
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
;
2
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Federal Institute of Paraiba and Federal University of Campina Grande, Spain
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Networks, TinyOS, TKN15.4, Active Message, IEEE 802.15.4.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Sensor Networks
;
Wireless Information Networks
;
Wireless Network Protocols
Abstract:
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have become a leading solution to monitor and control smart buildings,
health, industrial environments, and so on. Sensor nodes in a WSN have resource constraints, presenting low
processing power and, in some cases, restrictions in power consumption. The resource constraints forced the
researchers to develop Operating Systems (OS) for low-power wireless devices, and one of the most important
and in active use is the TinyOS. This paper presents an experimental study to evaluate the performance of
TinyOS default Active Message (AM) layer protocol in comparison to the fully 802.15.4 compliant protocol
stack TKN15.4 developed for TinyOS. The AS-XM1000 802.15.4 mote modules were used to compare
both protocols. The results showed that TKN15.4 protocol is better in both energy consumption and packet
reception rate.