A Routing Protocol for WSN Based on the Implementation of Source Routing for Minimum Cost Forwarding Method
A Routing Protocol for WSN Based on the Implementation of Source Routing for Minimum Cost Forwarding Method
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Date
2011
Authors
Vítor Grade Tavares
Fardin Derogarian Miyandoab
João Canas Ferreira
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Abstract-This paper presents a new routing protocol for
wireless sensor networks (WSN), established on the basis of
fundamental concepts in source based routing 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.