Performance Analysis of 3D WSN with Change in Rain Intensity

Abstract

Can the intensity of rainfall have major impact on terrestrial wireless communication? Using simulated results, we will look into the possibilities in this paper. The interest in developing wireless sensor network is of high importance in recent days specially looking into factors which affect the rate of data communication. Weather can be such an external factor to hamper the communication unexpectedly and at any time. In this paper, we have analyzed factors such as messages received, throughput, delay, and jitter under various intensity of rainfall in a particular scenario designed in 3D, using IEEE 802.15.4 standards. Dynamic Manet On-Demand (DYMO) was considered as the routing protocol in the simulation. Extensive simulations are done using QualNet 6.1 network simulator to validate the results and compare the graphs for better understanding. We believe this type of research work can trigger new techniques to better project the execution of WSN in its destined deployment environment.