期刊名称：International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
印刷版ISSN：0975-4679
电子版ISSN：0975-3834
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Communication protocols and techniques are often evaluated using simulation techniques. However, the use of formal modeling and analysis techniques for verification and evaluation in particular for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) becomes a necessity. In this paper we present a formal analysis of the backoff procedure integrated in the medium access control protocol named ECo-MAC designed for WSN. We describe this backoff procedure in terms of discrete time Markov chains (DTMCs) and evaluated using the well known probabilistic model checker PRISM. After checking the different invariants of the proposed model, we study the effect of contention window length (in number of time contention unit) on the acceptable number of simultaneous senders in a neighborhood of a given receiver. The obtained quantitative results confirm those provided by the simulation using OPNET tool and justify the validity of the adopted value for the time contention unit TCU.
关键词：Wireless Sensor Network; ECo-MAC protocol; probabilistic model checking
