A contribution to modeling sensor communication networks by using finite-source queueing systems

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a finite source retrial queueing model to investigate the performance characteristics of the wireless transmission problem in sensor networks. We divide the sensors into two classes. The first one is the “Emergency” class, which performs the notification of special emergency situations (eg. fire alarms). The second one is the “Normal” class, which measures and transmits environmental data (eg. temperature). For the performance evaluation of the wireless transmission we study and compare two cases: In the first model the RF transmission possibility will be available randomly for the sensor nodes (Non Controlled case) and in the second model the RF transmission requests coming from the emergency class, will access the wireless channel immediately (Controlled case). Our main interest is to give the main steady-state performance measures of the system computed by the help of the MOSEL tool.