Analysis and Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs Combining Source Routing and Minimum Cost Forwarding

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2018-10

Authors

Fardin Miyandoab (Author) Other; João Canas Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Vítor Grade Tavares (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Mobile Multimedia

Vol. 14

Pages: 469-504

ISSN: 1550-4646

Publisher: River Publishers

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Scopus - 8 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Q-BJA

DOI: 10.13052/jmm1550-4646.1444

Abstract (EN): Source routing (SR) minimum cost forwarding (MCF) ¿ SRMCF ¿ is a reactive, energy-efficient routing protocol proposed to improve the existent MCF methods utilized in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSN). This paper presents an analytical analysis with experimental support that demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed protocol. SRMCF stems from SR concepts and MCF methods exploited in ad hoc WSNs, where all unicast communications (between sensor nodes and the base station, or vice versa) use minimum cost paths. The protocol utilized in the present work was updated and now also handles link and node failures. Theoretical analysis and simulations show that the final protocol exhibits better throughput and energy consumption than MCF. Memory requirements for the routing table in the base station are also analyzed. Experimental results in a real scenario were obtained for implementations of both protocols, MCF and SRMCF, deployed in a small network of TelosB motes. Results show that SRMCF presents a 33% higher throughput and 24% less energy consumption than MCF. Extensive © 2019 River Publishers

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific