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BER Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Wireless Sensor Networks Under Various Fading Channels

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This paper presents bit error rate (BER) analysis of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consisting of sensor nodes based on an IEEE 802.15.4 RF transceiver. Closed-form expressions for BER are obtained for WSNs operating over AWGN, Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channels. For the purpose of analysis, we consider an IEEE 802.15.4 RF transceiver using direct sequence spread spectrum-offset quadrature phase shift keying (DSSS-OQPSK) modulation under 2.4 GHz frequency band in a WSN. Analytical expressions for BER are derived for a wireless link between sensor nodes that act as a transmitter unit and a base station without considering the effect of interferers in the wireless environment. Numerical results for BER are obtained by varying the IEEE 802.15.4 standard specific physical layer parameters, such as number of bits used to represent a Zigbee symbol, number of modulation levels used in an OQPSK modulator, and various values of Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading parameters, denoted as \(\alpha \) and \(m\), respectively. Moreover, optimum values of physical layer parameters are identified for improved system performance. It is found that error performance analysis of WSN shows improvement when lower number of bits is used to represent a Zigbee symbol. Specifically, under a Rayleigh fading channel which reflects a real-time WSN environment, the network exhibits better performance only when it is operated at high SNR values, i.e., BER of order \(10^{-2}\) is achieved when SNR lies in the range 5–15 dB. Also, the effect of fading parameters on network performance shows that better results are obtained for higher values of \(\alpha \) and \(m\) for Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channels, respectively.

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    V. Nithya, B. Ramachandran & Vidhyacharan Bhaskar

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Nithya, V., Ramachandran, B. & Bhaskar, V. BER Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Wireless Sensor Networks Under Various Fading Channels. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 3105–3124 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1698-y

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