Title

Congestion Control And Fairness In Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this paper we propose a distributed congestion control algorithm for tree based communications in wireless sensor networks, that seeks to adaptively assign afair and efficient transmission rate to each node. In our algorithm, each node monitors its aggregate output and input traffic rates. Based on the difference of the two, a node then decides either to increase or decrease the bandwidth allocable to a flow originating from itself and to those being routed through it. Since the application requirements in sensor network follows no common trait, our design abstracts the notion of fairness, allowing for the development of a generic utility controlling module. Such separation of the utility and fairness controlling modules enables each one to use a separate control law thereby portraying a more flexible design. The working of our congestion control is independent of the underlying routing algorithm and is designed to adapt to changes in the underlying routing topology. We evaluate the performance of the algorithm via extensive simulations using an event-driven packet level simulator. The results suggest that the proposed protocol acquires a significantly high goodput of around 95% of the actual transmission rate, converges quickly to the optimal rate, and attains the desired fairness. © 2010 IEEE.

Publication Date

7-1-2010

Publication Title

2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2010

Number of Pages

413-418

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470632

Socpus ID

77953974154 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77953974154

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