Performance Analysis of MAC Layer Protocols for WSN with Considering the Effects of Hidden Node Problem

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Performance Analysis of MAC Layer Protocols for WSN with Considering the
Effects of Hidden Node Problem
Kaeed Ketab Kaeed, Salah Abdulghani Alabady*
Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq
Received on: 01/01/2022; Revised on: 20/01/2022; Accepted on: 25/02/2022
ABSTRACT
In this paper, the effects of the hidden node problem in Wireless sensor networks are studied on three
different MAC protocols using various field distances and various numbers of nodes. This study provides
the best number of nodes to be disseminated in a specific field distance depending on the needed
performance metrics. Six performance metrics are used in this study, which are Goodput, Throughput,
Packet delivery ratio (PDR), Residual Energy, Average Delay, and the first and last node dead in the
network. IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, and time division multiple access (TDMA) protocols are used.
Results show that TDMA gives the best energy conservation and high delay time with high PDR, while
IEEE 802.11 provides the best throughput and goodput results and low delay time.
Key words: WSN, IEEE 802.11, TDMA, IEEE 802.15.4, Throughput
INTRODUCTION
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considering
a very fast-growing network. It may consist
of a low number (tens) to a very large number
(hundreds or thousands) of sensor nodes, which
are tiny and lightweight devices with limited
resources such as energy level and processing
capabilities. Sensor nodes architecture consists
of main components, Sensing Unit, Power Unit,
Communication Unit, and Processing Unit.WSN’s
importance is linked to their wide applications
range, such as environmental applications,
military applications, agricultural applications,
and industrial applications. Sensor nodes depend
on the application in its dissemination. It may
be statically or randomly disseminated in an
observation field to sense, gather, and process
specific required data. Figure 1 shows the basic
architecture of WSN.
WSNs encounter many challenges in their
design. Energy dissipation is the main challenge
in designing WSNs. It is limited and finite in
Sensor nodes. Small batteries are the main energy
source in sensor nodes. These batteries have
limited capacity. It is stressful to replace these
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batteries when the number of nodes is so large
and also, when using these nodes in a military
application may be to locate enemy locations, it
will be impossible to replace these batteries due
to the hostile environment. The main causes of
energy dissipation in WSN are collisions, idle
listening, and communications between sensor
nodes, retransmission, overhearing, and control
packet overhead. These reasons to waste energy
must be alleviated by designing an efficient MAC
protocol.[1]
MAC layer in WSNs responsibilities
is flow control, channel access, error control,
and scheduling. Sensor nodes almost share
one transmission channel shared among them.
Collisions are the main cause of the loss of sent
data. Therefore, an efficient mechanism should
be applied to ensure the reliability of transmitting
data. This is one of the main issues in designing
an effective MAC protocol.[2]
The transmission
range of the sensor nodes is bounded due to its
limited capabilities. Therefore, nodes could not
completely sense each other in the observation
field, and due to the nature of WSN in gathering
and send data as wireless transmission to a
specific main node (sink or base station) as shown
in Figure 1, a distractive problem is appeared
called hidden node problem.[3,4]
The hidden node
problem is one of the most affected parameters in
the performance of WSNs. It mainly occurs when
two nodes outrange each other send data packets
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to a third node fall in their transmission range.
This leads to collision and loss of the sent packets.
Furthermore, this makes sensor nodes differ their
transmission for a back-off time period. Many
researchers have proposed several MAC layer
protocols to address or eliminate this problem,
with each proposed MAC protocol having its pros
and cons.[5,6]
RELATED WORK
The authors in Azad et al.[7]
made a survey of
schedule-based MAC protocols in WSNs. They
introduced the MAC layer properties and the
challenges of schedule-based MAC protocol. They
describednineschedule-basedMACprotocols.They
brief their work with a comprehensive table for the
used MAC protocol with listing their advantage and
disadvantage. Their motivation was to give a survey
on these MAC protocols for the ease of knowing
their properties and the selecting of the best one
for a specific application. The authors in Boudour
et al.,[8]
present the advantages of reservation-
based MAC protocols and compare them with
contention-based MAC protocols, especially the
IEEE 802.11e standard. They simulated (RCSMA,
CATA, FPRP, and IEEE 802.11e) MAC protocols
using NS2. They also provide a detailed analysis of
the main drawbacks and challenging issues. They
found that reservation MAC protocols perform
well in static ad hoc networks. Simulation results
show that these protocols outperform the IEEE
802.11e standard in low mobility scenarios, but
the performances of these protocols are expected
to degrade as the mobility of nodes increases.
Furthermore, they found that collisions could
happen in reservation MAC protocol at the time
of the network initialization. Finally, they found
that contention-based MAC protocol suffering
from high control packet overhead. The authors in
Bradai et al.[9]
present a deep and comprehensive
WBAN MAC protocols performance. They
evaluated the effectiveness of three MAC protocols
(IEEE802.15.4, IEEE80.2.15.6, and TMAC) and
conclude a better access mechanism to be used
in WBAN networks. They used OMNET++ with
Castalia to simulate the proposed scenarios. They
run several simulations with different parameters
each time. Packet delivery ratio (PDR) and latency
are the used performance metrics. They simulate
two scenarios, the first one for calculating the
latency and the second for calculating PDR. They
have evaluated these two metrics in GTS ON
configuration and GTS OFF configuration. They
concluded that the three protocols perform better
with GTS ON the hybrid MAC protocols are better
ones.
MAC LAYER PROTOCOL IN WSNs
The medium access control protocol is the most
important layer in WSN since sensor nodes need
self-organization capability, and self-healing
when the network topology changes. The Main
responsibility of MAC protocol is how to access
the transmission channels. So that network
resources must be fairly shared like transmission
channel to increase reliability and efficiency of the
network. MAC is also responsible for scheduling,
buffer management, flow control, and error
control. Energy is the main design issue in MAC
protocol that must be given a high priority.[10]
Three MAC protocols were studied in this paper
which are IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, and time
division multiple access (TDMA).
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is the standard for WLAN. It is
a contention-based MAC protocol. It adopts a
powerful mechanism to alleviate the hidden node
problem. The fundamental mechanism it uses
to access the channel is distributed coordination
function (DCF), which is a random access scheme
that utilizes carrier sense multiple accesses with
collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with binary
exponential back-off time as its basic rule to
access the transmission channel. It also supports
an optional access mechanism called the point
coordination function, which supports centralized
and collision-free services.[11]
Figure 1: WSN Basic Architecture

DCF defines two channel access techniques. The
first one is called the basic access mechanism.
In this technique node that has a packet to send
will sense the channel if it is idle the node will
wait for a period of time called distributed inter-
frame space (DIFS) if the channel is still idle
the node sends its packet to the destination,
after successfully receiving of the sent packet
the destination node waits for a short period of
time called short inter-frame space (SIFS) if the
channel is still idle the destination node reply
with acknowledgment packet (ACK) to inform
the sender with successfully data reception.[12]
Figure 2 shows the basic access mechanism.
DCF also defines a more complex technique for
nodes to win the transmission channel which
required four-way handshaking (RTS, CTS,
DATA, and ACK). The node that wants to send
its packet must sense the channel to be idle and
waiting for a DIFS time period if the channel is
still idle, the node will send the request to send
a packet (RTS), the destination upon successfully
receiving and waiting for SIFS will answer with
clear to send a packet (CTS). At this time, the
sender and after waiting for SIFS time can send
its data packet to the destination with successfully
receiving wait for SIFS and send ACK packet. If
the channel is sensed to be busy at DIFS waiting
for the time the node will defer its transmission
and wait until the channel is free again, if it is the
node will wait for DIFS and generating a random
back-off time to wait for before sending a data
packet. This is the collision avoidance mechanism
the IEEE 802.11 follows.[13]
Figure 3 shows RTS,
CTS mechanism.
DCF techniques also provide a virtual sensing
mechanism with the use network allocation vector
(NAV) to suppress other nodes from sending or
receiving. NAV containing the time needed for the
current transmission to be complete.
IEEE 802.15.4
IEEE 802.15.4 is considered a standard for low
data rate wireless personal area networks. It
defines both PHY and MAC layers. It is basic
for Zigbee networks. The PHY layer features
are deactivation and activation of the radio
transceiver, energy detection, link quality
indicator, clear channel assessment, channel
selection, and transmitting and receiving packets.
The radio could be operated with these three
types of bands 868–868.6 MHz, 902–928 MHz,
and 2400–2483.5 MHz. The MAC sub-layer
features are channel access, acknowledged frame
delivery, GTS management, beacon management,
disassociation, and association.[14]
IEEE 802.15.4 supports different network
topologies (star, cluster tree, and mesh) and
devices. An optional super frame can be used to
control the duty cycle of devices. It can be used
as a contention-based and scheduled-based MAC
protocol. It can work with a high number of devices
(65.536 devices when using short addresses [16
bits]).[15]
Two types of devices are defined in this protocol
depending on their capability and complexity.
Full function devices (FFD) are devices that can
support all specifications of IEEE 802.15.4. It can
route, relay packets, and communicate with all
other devices in the network. It can be a router,
coordinator, or normal (end) device. Reduced
function devices are simple devices with limited
capabilities that can communicate with (FFD)
only.[16]
IEEE 802.15.4 can operate in two modes beacon
and non-beacon. In the beacon mode, devices
synchronized with the coordinator and wait for its
beacon signal. To know when to go to sleep and
the next beacon signal, devices use slotted CSMA/
CA to compete with each other. In this mode, all
devices know when to communicate with each
other. The timing to wakes up must be very
accurate to catch a beacon signal. Figure 4 shows
Figure 2: IEEE 802.11 Basic Access Techniques
Figure 3: IEEE 802.11 DCF with RTC and CTS

communication between coordinator and network
device. IEEE 802.15.4 channel access mechanism
is reduced greatly when high data traffic exists in
networks.[17]
In non-beacon mode devices uses unslotted
CSMA/CA to contend with each other. There is
no synchronization between devices. Figure 5
shows communication between the coordinator
and network devices in non-beacon mode.
IEEE 802.15.4 does not apply any mechanism
to alleviate the hidden node problem. This may
greatly degrade the network performance due to
the high collision rate.[18]
TDMA
A schedule-based MAC protocol guarantees the
fair distribution of transmission channels between
nodes. It divides the transmission channel into
equal time slots and allocates each node with a one-
time slot. In this way, there is only one node that
sends or receives on the transmission channel at
any time. Node triggers its radio on in its allocated
time slots and turns it off in the other time slots.
This leads to a level of energy conservation.[19]
Figure 6 shows the TDMA MAC protocol.
TDMAdoes not suffer from hidden nodes problem
and eliminate packet collisions in the network.
No idle listening for nodes since nodes turns
their radio on only when it has a packet to send
or receive. Allocated time slots altogether form
TDMA frame which is continuously repeated.[20]
TDMA drawbacks when the number of nodes
is large latency are greatly increased since the
node that wants to send data packet needs to
wait for the channel to have its allocated time
slot. Furthermore, network bandwidth may be
unutilized efficiently since some nodes may not
have anything to send.[21]
HIDDEN NODE PROBLEM IN WSNs
Wireless communications have a broadcast nature
that all neighboring devices could hear but not
all of them could interpret. This nature exhausts
network resources and mainly network bandwidth.
WSNs with their limited capabilities may have
only one channel to send and receive data packets.
This means that only one node can send data with
its transmission range. The hidden node problem
is the main degradation parameter in wireless
networks.[22]
It occurs when a node cannot sense an
ongoing data transmission and send its data at the
same time which leads to data collision and loss of
the transmitted packets. Figure 7 illustrates hidden
node problem occurrence. Node A can sense node
B since it is in its radio range but cannot sense node
C because it lies outside its radio range. The same
is for node C; it can sense node B but cannot sense
node A for the same reasons. When node A has a
packet and wanting to send it to node B, it will
sense and find the channel idle (no transmission is
happening), so that it will start sending its packet,
if before the end of A’s transmission node C have
a packet and want to send it to node B it will sense
and find the transmission channel idle (since it
Figure 4: Communication with Coordinator in Beacon
Mode
Figure 5: Communication with Coordinator in Non-
Beacon Mode
Figure 6: TDMA MAC Protocol

experiences high difficulties in its mechanism to
access the channel when a high data rate and a
high number of nodes exist. Furthermore, when
field distance is increased this causes the existence
of hidden node problem and the need for multi-
hop to transmit data packets to sink node. TDMA
generates low throughput and goodput because
the increase in node number introduces high
delay time. Throughput and goodput are shown in
Figures 8 and 9, respectively.
PDR is shown in Figure 10. When field distance is
(250 × 250) m2
IEEE 802.11, and TDMAprotocols
give high results because there is no hidden node
problem and no multi-hop respectively.When field
distance increases IEEE 802.11 is heavily affected
by hidden node problems and starts to degrade in
its work. TDMA also starts to degrade because of
the existence of multi-hop transmission that means
more delay time and ending of simulation time
could not sense node A transmission), so that it
will send its packet which leads to data collision
in node B. This situation is called a hidden node or
blind node problem.[23,24]
SIMULATION AND RESULTS
COMPARISON
The selected MAC protocols have different
properties and mechanisms to alleviate hidden
node problems and to access channels, except
IEEE 802.15.4 which does not provide any
mechanism to alleviate hidden node problems.
Simulation results from a comparison among
protocols are studied to identify the characteristic
of each protocol with six performance metrics
(Throughput, Goodput, PDR, Delay, Average
Residual Energy, and First - Last Nodes Dead).
Eight scenarios are implemented with variable
node number (75 and 100) and field area (250 ×
250, 500 × 500, 750 × 750, and 1000 × 1000) m2
,
which have been grouped into two scenarios for
the simplicity of results comparison. Table 1
shows implemented scenarios.
Simulation system parameters are shown in
Table 2.
The first scenario
In this scenario, (75) nodes are randomly
disseminated and the field distance is varying
to (250 × 250, 500 × 500, 750 × 750, and 1000
× 1000) m2
. Average results are combined and
discussed for the selected protocols.
IEEE 802.11 is the dominant protocol with high
throughput and goodput because of its good
mechanism to alleviate hidden node problems and
no sleep periods are introduced. IEEE 802.15.4
Figure 7: Hidden Node Problem
Table 2: System parameters
Simulation System
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04
Mobility Model Constant Position
Packet Size 64 Byte
Type of Traffic CBR
Traffic Rate (Kbps) 20
Interface Queue Type PriQueue
Interface Queue Length 100000 Packet
Transport Protocol UDP
Topology Random
Energy Model Energy Model in NS2
Transmission Range 250 m
Table 1: Implemented scenarios
Parameters First
Scenario
Second
Scenario
Number of Nodes 75 100
Field Distance ( m2
) 250, 500,
750, 1000
250, 500,
750, 1000
Simulation Time (Sec) 1000 1000
Initial Energy For Sink Node unlimited unlimited
Packet Source Nodes (Joule) unlimited unlimited
Initial Energy For Normal Nodes 2 joule 2 joule
Routing Protocol AODV AODV
Propagation Model Two Ray
Ground
Two Ray
Ground
Tx Power (Watt) 0.0522 0.0522
Rx Power (Watt) 0.0591 0.0591
Idle Power (Watt) 0.00006 0.00006
Sleep Power (Watt) 0.000003 0.000003
Antenna Omni
Antenna
Omni
Antenna

Figure 8: Throughput of first scenario in case 75 nodes
Figure 9: Goodput of first scenario in case 75 nodes
Figure 10: PDR of first scenario in case 75 nodes
with the low number of the packet transmitted.
IEEE 802.15.4 PDR is very low because it cannot
deal with high data rate and have no mechanism to
alleviate hidden node problem.
Whenever a number of nodes increase delay time
of TDMA protocol is increasing too and also
when field distance increases delay times increase
because of the need for more hops to reach the
sink node as shown in Figure 11. When field
distance is (500 × 500) m2
, high delay is shown
because there was a bottleneck node in routes of
two packet source nodes. IEEE 802.11 and IEEE
802.15.4 have low delay times since no sleep
periods exist and no waiting for a specific time to
acquire the transmission channel.
The average residual energy is shown in
Figure 12. TDMA is the best protocol in energy
saving since it does not suffer from collisions, idle
listening, overhearing, and hidden node problem.
IEEE 802.15.4 shows high residual energy since
Figure 11: Average delay of first scenario in case 75 nodes
Figure 12: Average residual energy of first scenario in case
75 nodes
its throughput value is low. It has been noticed
a volatile behavior for IEEE 802.15.4 protocol
in its results and this because of the way it is
used to access the channel. IEEE 802.11 is the
worst protocol in energy conservation since it
does not let nodes go to sleep and suffering from
idle listening, overhearing, and hidden node
problems. When field distance is (750 × 750,
1000 × 1000) m2
, IEEE 802.11 starts to save
some energy and this is because some nodes do
not participate in sending or receiving processes
due to their location or that it is does not have a
route to sink node.
The first dead and last dead nodes are shown in
Figures 13 and 14. IEEE 802.11 consumes energy
quickly and TDMA conserves energy very well.
IEEE 802.15.4 shows volatile results because
of the mechanism it implements to acquire
transmission channels.
Results of the first scenario are summarized in
Table 3.
The second scenario
In this scenario, (100) nodes are randomly
disseminated and the field distance is varying
to (250 × 250, 500 × 500, 750 × 750, and
1000 × 1000) m2
. Average results are combined
and discussed for the selected protocols.
Throughput and goodput are shown in
Figures 15 and 16, respectively. Almost the same
results as the first scenario are obtained for the

Table 3: Summary of first scenario results in case 75 nodes
Protocol No. of
nodes
Area Throughput (kbps) Goodput (kbps) Delay (sec) PDR Residual
Energy
IEEE 802.11 75 250 × 250 143.0078 108.958 0.005411298 0.9996762 0
IEEE 802.15.4 25.50268 19.432 0.04364712 0.12959668 1.2604062
TDMA 26.8375 20.45 235.6434 1 1.983782
IEEE 802.11 500 × 500 116.8398 89.022 0.141453 0.8167504 0
IEEE 802.15.4 7.3236722 5.558 0.19836258 0.027636446 1.6543516
TDMA 13.16694 10.028 442.6296 0.7927022 1.9834266
IEEE 802.11 750 × 750 26.61642 20.278 0.8094752 0.0778876 0.2060898
IEEE 802.15.4 5.1217416 3.9 0.4769405 0.028778488 1.568578
TDMA 11.992072 9.136 247.26422 0.51611746 1.9018842
IEEE 802.11 1000 × 1000 17.79586 13.562 2.970458 0.05122306 0.354244
IEEE 802.15.4 13.220204 10.072 301.27296 0.06292734 1.1230848
TDMA 12.738388 9.704 299.1092 0.6683056 1.8996188
Figure 13: First dead node of first scenario in case 75
nodes
Figure 14: Last dead node of first scenario in case 75
nodes
Figure 15: Throughput of second scenario in case 100
nodes
same reasons mentioned before. Except that IEEE
802.15.4 performs better than TDMA because of
the increase in node number and the high delay
time that TDMA protocol introduces.
Figure 17 shows the PDR of the second scenario.
IEEE 802.11 shows better results when field
distance (250 × 250) m2
and (500 × 500) m2
where
Figure 16: Goodput of second scenario in case 100 nodes
Figure 17: PDR of second scenario in case 100 nodes
TDMA suffering from high delay time. When
field distance increases to (750 × 750) m2
and
(1000 × 1000) m2
IEEE 802.11 suffering from
hidden node problem which degrades the protocol
performance, while TDMA does not suffer from
hidden node problem so that it gives the best
results. IEEE 802.15.4 gives the worst PDR for
the same reasons mentioned before.
The average delay is shown in Figure 18. High
delay is shown for TDMA protocol and low delay
for IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 for the same
reason mentioned in the first scenario.
Average residual energy is shown in Figure 19,
TDMA is the best protocol that saves energy. For
the same reasons mentioned before. IEEE 802.11
is the worst protocol in energy conservation since
nodes either transmit or listen for transmissions.
IEEE 802.15.4 takes second place in saving
energy since it gives low throughput and goodput
values. And also some nodes do not participate

Figure 18: Average delay of second scenario in case 100
nodes
Figure 19: Average residual energy of second scenario in
case 100 nodes
Figure 20: First dead node of second scenario in case 100
nodes
Figure 21: Last dead node of second scenario in case 100
nodes
Table 4: Results of second scenario in case 100 nodes
Protocol No. of nodes Area Throughput (kbps) Goodput
(kbps)
Delay
(sec)
PDR Residual
Energy
IEEE 802.11 100 250 × 250 142.846 108.972 0.0054 0.99981 0
IEEE 802.15.4 17.5957 13.408 0.05194 0.1104 1.2713958
TDMA 20.262 15.44 326.735 1 1.97981
IEEE 802.11 500 × 500 113.241 86.28 0.15418 0.79159 0
IEEE 802.15.4 15.5622 11.856 0.14886 0.08233 1.232971
TDMA 10.0627 7.67 446.421 0.60583 1.982932
Protocol Area Throughput
(kbps)
Goodput
(kbps)
Delay
(sec)
PDR Residual
Energy
IEEE 802.11 750 × 750 26.4629 20.162 0.81136 0.0791 0.240972
IEEE 802.15.4 11.1121 8.466 0.20536 0.06236 0.9774928
TDMA 8.86032 6.75 304.843 0.48007 1.8389896
IEEE 802.11 1000 × 1000 13.4518 10.252 2.6041 0.03995 0.3121508
IEEE 802.15.4 11.5979 8.834 0.25746 0.0631 1.2270214
TDMA 5.35951 4.082 220.765 0.25111 1.8938288
in data transmission because they have no route
to sink node that makes them lose energy only
by idle listening. This is the same case for IEEE
802.11 when field distance is (750 × 750) m2
and
(1000 × 1000) m2
.
The first and last dead nodes are shown in
Figures 20 and 21, respectively. Almost, the same
results as the first scenario are obtained for the
same reasons mentioned before.
Summary of obtained results of the second
scenario is listed in Table 4.
CONCLUSION
In this paper, three MAC protocols were simulated
and compared with each other using different
scenarios and different performance metrics.
The results show that IEEE 802.11 protocol is
performing better in throughput and goodput
results, and also gives low delay time. This is
because IEEE 802.11 forces nodes to always be
awake, which make them, have full knowledge of
the status of the network. IEEE 802.15.4 is given
low delay time with volatile results. While TDMA
protocol performs better in energy conservation

since it let nodes go to sleep and save energy and
does not suffer from idle listening, overhearing,
and hidden node problem. Hidden node problems
have a great influence on IEEE 802.11 and IEEE
802.15.4 MAC protocols and highly degrade the
network performance.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author
states that there is no conflict of interest.
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