Research Article

Contiki-Based IEEE 802.15.4 Channel Capacity Estimation and Suitability of Its CSMA-CA MAC Layer Protocol for Real-Time Multimedia Applications

Table 1

General parameters for simulation.

Parameter value Value

MAC layer CSMA-CA
MAC layer reliability Disabled
Radio duty cycling algorithm Null radio duty cycling
Radio model Undirected graph model
MAC layer queue size 30 packets
Bit rate 250 kbps
Node transmission range 50 meters
Node carrier sensing range 100 meters
Total frame size 127 bytes
Simulated node type Tmote sky