Statistical Multipath Queue-Wise Preemption Routing for ZigBee-Based WSN

Nowadays, wireless sensor network (WSN) is an important component in IoT environment, which enables efficient data collection and transmission. Since WSN consists of a large number of sensor nodes, network congestion can easily occur which significantly degrades the performance of entire network. In this paper a novel scheme called SMQP (Statistical Multipath Queue-wise Preemption) routing is proposed to balance the load and avoid the congestion for ZigBee-based WSN. This is achieved by employing statistical path scheduling and queue-wise preemption with multiple paths between any source and destination node. NS2 simulation reveals that the proposed scheme significantly improves the QoS in terms of delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and packet delivery ratio compared to the representative routing schemes for WSN such as ad hoc on-demand distance vector and ad hoc on-demand multipath distance vector scheme.