Title

Lightweight Routing With Dynamic Interests In Wireless Sensor And Actor Networks

Keywords

Quality of service; Routing; Wireless sensor and actor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) have been increasingly popular for environmental monitoring applications in the last decade. While the deployment of sensor nodes enables a fine granularity of data collection, resource-rich actor nodes provide further evaluation of the information and reaction. Quality of service (QoS) and routing solutions for WSANs are challenging compared to traditional networks because of the limited node resources. WSANs also have different QoS requirements than wireless sensor networks (WSNs) since actors and sensor nodes have distinct resource constraints. In this paper, we present, LRP-QS, a lightweight routing protocol with dynamic interests and QoS support for WSANs. LRP-QS provides QoS by differentiating the rates among different types of interests with dynamic packet tagging at sensor nodes and per flow management at actor nodes. The interests, which define the types of events to observe, are distributed in the network. The weights of the interests are determined dynamically by using a nonsensitive ranking algorithm depending on the variation in the observed values of data collected in response to interests. Our simulation studies show that the proposed protocol provides a higher packet delivery ratio and a lower memory consumption than the existing state of the art protocols. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

11-1-2013

Publication Title

Ad Hoc Networks

Volume

11

Issue

8

Number of Pages

2313-2328

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.05.012

Socpus ID

84885330824 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84885330824

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