Performance Evaluation of Grid Wireless Sensor Network with Different Packet Size for Pipeline in Downstream of Oil and Gas Industry

Abstract

In the past few decades, sensed data such as wind, vibration, temperature, and humidity were sent through the costly wire cable. With recent advancement and innovation in the wireless field, wireless sensor network (WSN) has emerged to benefit many industries in different aspects primarily in term of cost. WSN has been widely used in various applications due to its wide coverage area, particularly in oil and gas facility monitoring. Hence, the usage of grid WSN fits the wide coverage area mainly in the pipeline of downstream of oil and gas process. The main objective of this paper is to give a better understanding of the impact of different packet sizes, routing protocols, and the number of nodes towards a grid WSN as well as to provide open research issues in this field. Two types of routing protocols have been presented in this paper; reactive (AODV) and proactive (DSDV) with different packet sizes using a grid node arrangement. The simulated results have shown that with the increasing size of the network, more performance degradation occurred regardless of the packet size used. This issue can be seen through the packet loss and throughput loss in the network prominently after the deployment of 80 nodes and above. Apart from that, DSDV has shown a better delivery ratio, less number of passive nodes existence and less routing overhead produced in the network as compared to the AODV routing protocol.