Matlab Code of the implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 Mac/Phy Layer

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Author:	Mohamed-Haykel Zayani & Vincent Gauthier
Maintainer:	Vincent Gauthier <vgauthier@luxbulb.org>

Description

Matlab Code of the implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 Mac/Phy Layer. More information about the code could be found in the following paper:

• M.-H. Zayani, V. Gauthier, D. Zeghlache, , A joint model for IEEE 802.15.4 physical and medium access control layers, in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011 7th International, pp.814-819, 4-8 July 2011. [URL]

Introduction

The m-file model an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 Machine Access Control (MAC) layer channel in which multiple non-saturated stations compete to get access to the channel and to communicate with a sink. It is inspired from the IEEE 802.11 Model [1] developed by David Griffith and Michael Souryal (Emerging and Mobile Network Technologies Group, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology). The objective behind this “adaptation” is to model a physical layer (PHY), including path loss and shadowing effects which interacts with the MAC model. The particularity of the proposed model lies in overstepping the node range disk shaped and taking into consideration the called “transitional area” [2] [3]. The model relies on the approach of Zuniga and Krishnamachari [2] [3]. The function ZunPhyModel performs the calculations at the PHY level and determines the probability of good frame reception towards channel (signal-to-noise ratio) and radio (modulation and coding) parameters.

References

[1]	SGIP NIST Smart Grid Collaboration Site, PAP02: Wireless Communicattions for the Smart Grid (6.1.5), Call for Input to Task6, 2010.

[2]	(1, 2) Zuniga, M. and Krishnamachari, B., “Analyzing the transitional region in low power wireless links,” In Proceedings of the IEEE 1st Annual Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), pp. 517–526, 2004.

[3]	(1, 2) Zuniga, M., and Krishnamachari, B., “An analysis of unreliability and asymmetry in lowpower wireless links,” ACM Trans. Sensor Netw., 2007.

[4]	M.-H. Zayani, V. Gauthier, D. Zeghlache, , "A joint model for IEEE 802.15.4 physical and medium access control layers," in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011 7th International, pp.814-819, 4-8 July 2011.