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Muhammad Khurram

Work place: Department of Computer & Information Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

E-mail: mkhurrum@neduet.edu.pk

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Research Interests: Interaction Design, Computer systems and computational processes, Embedded System, Operating Systems, Systems Architecture, Information Systems, Algorithm Design

Biography

Muhammad Khurram obtained his Ph.D. in IC Design from Massey University, New Zealand in 2012. Currently, he is serving as associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan. His research interests are RF IC Design, Wireless Communication Systems, VLSI System Design, Embedded Systems and Systems Biology.

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Performance Analysis of MAC Layer Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network

By Hameeza Ahmed Muhammad Khurram

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2014.05.07, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2014

Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocols have a critical role in making a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) more reliable and efficient. Choice of MAC layer protocol and other factors including number of nodes, mobility, traffic rate and playground size dictates the performance of a particular WSN. In this paper, the performance of an experimental WSN is evaluated using different MAC layer protocols. In this experiment, a WSN is created using OMNeT++ MiXiM network simulator and its performance in terms of packet delivery ratio and mean latency is evaluated. The simulation results show that IEEE 802.11 MAC layer protocol performs better than CSMA, B-MAC and IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer protocols. In the considered scenario, IEEE 802.15.4 is ranked second in performance, followed by CSMA and B-MAC.

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