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Improved Adaptive Backoff Algorithm for Optimal Channel Utilization in Large-Scale IEEE 802.15.4-Based Wireless Body Area Networks

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  • Mounib Khanafer

    (College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, American University of Kuwait, P.O. Box 3323, Safat 13034, Kuwait)

  • Mouhcine Guennoun

    (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada)

  • Mohammed El-Abd

    (College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, American University of Kuwait, P.O. Box 3323, Safat 13034, Kuwait)

  • Hussein T. Mouftah

    (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada)

Abstract

The backoff algorithm employed by the medium access control (MAC) protocol of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard has a significant impact on the overall performance of the wireless sensor network (WSN). This algorithm helps the MAC protocol resolve the contention among multiple nodes in accessing the wireless medium. The standard binary exponent backoff (BEB) used by the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol relies on an incremental method that doubles the size of the contention window after the occurrence of a collision. In a previous work, we proposed the adaptive backoff algorithm (ABA), which adapts the contention window’s size to the value of the probability of collision, thus relating the contention resolution to the size of the WSN in an indirect manner. ABA was studied and tested using contention window sizes of up to 256. However, the latter limit on the contention window size led to degradation in the network performance as the size of the network exceeded 50 nodes. This paper introduces the Improved ABA (I-ABA), an improved version of ABA. In the design of I-ABA we observe the optimal values of the contention window that maximize performance under varying probabilities of collision. Based on that, we use curve fitting techniques to derive a mathematical expression that better describes the adaptive change in the contention window. This forms the basis of I-ABA, which demonstrates scalability and the ability to enhance performance. As a potential area of application for I-ABA, we target wireless body area networks (WBANs) that are large-scale, that is, composed of hundreds of sensor nodes. WBAN is a major application area for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. We evaluate the performance of I-ABA based on simulations. Our results show that, in a large-scale WBAN, I-ABA can achieve superior performance to both ABA and the standard BEB in terms of various performance metrics.

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  • Mounib Khanafer & Mouhcine Guennoun & Mohammed El-Abd & Hussein T. Mouftah, 2024. "Improved Adaptive Backoff Algorithm for Optimal Channel Utilization in Large-Scale IEEE 802.15.4-Based Wireless Body Area Networks," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 16(9), pages 1-24, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:16:y:2024:i:9:p:313-:d:1466588
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    1. Innocent Uzougbo Onwuegbuzie & Shukor Abd Razak & Ismail Fauzi Isnin & Tasneem S J Darwish & Arafat Al-dhaqm, 2020. "Optimized backoff scheme for prioritized data in wireless sensor networks: A class of service approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-31, August.
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