A routing protocol for WSN based on the implementation of source routing for minimum cost forwarding method

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Fardin Derogarian Miyandoab (Author) FEUP; J. Canas Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Vitor Grade Tavares (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: SENSORCOMM 2011 - 5th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications and WSNSCM 2011, 1st International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Supply Chain Management

Pages: 85-90

5th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2011 and 1st International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Supply Chain Management, WSNSCM 2011

21 August 2011 through 27 August 2011

Indexing

Scopus - 21 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electronic engineering ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Communication engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-WPR

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN), established on the basis of fundamental concepts in source based routing (SBR) for ad hoc networks and minimum cost forwarding (MCF) methods for heterogeneous WSNs. Neither routing tables nor network topology information is maintained at sensor level, which makes the proposed protocol part of the reactive routing protocols class. Despite the lack of network information at the sensor, the packets from the sink node to sensors, and viceversa, always follow the optimal communication path with minimum cost. Simulation results have shown that the proposed protocol performs better than MCF protocol alone, and nodes always route the packets through the optimal path up to destination. In fact, according to the energy consumption and throughput found by simulation, this protocol improves on the MCF protocol for applications where the sink node, acting as a server or base station (BS), generates significant amounts of network traffic. All results are based on simulations and data treatment performed with OMNet++ 4, Matlab 7 and Microsoft Visual Studio2010(C#) platform tools.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific