EEGBRP: an energy-efficient grid-based routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

Wireless Networks - Underwater sensor networks (UWSN) include a set of sensor nodes equipped with limited batteries. These batteries are not rechargeable and replacement of them is difficult and...     

A centralized energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of small battery powered devices with limited energy resources. Once deployed, the small sensor nodes are usually inaccessible to the user, and thus replacement of the energy source is not feasible. Hence, energy efficiency is a key design issue that needs to be enhanced in order to improve the life span of the network. Several network layer protocols have been proposed to improve the effective lifetime of a network with a limited energy supply. In this article we propose a centralized routing protocol called base-station controlled dynamic clustering protocol (BCDCP), which distributes the energy dissipation evenly among all sensor nodes to improve network lifetime and average energy savings. The performance of BCDCP is then compared to clustering-based schemes such as low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), LEACH-centralized (LEACH-C), and power-efficient gathering in sensor information systems (PEGASIS). Simulation results show that BCDCP reduces overall energy consumption and improves network lifetime over its comparatives.     

水下无线传感器网络DBR路由协议研究

DBR(Depth Based Routing)协议是水下无线传感器网络中第一个基于深度信息的路由协议。分析了水下无线传感器网络中DBR路由协议特性,详细阐述了DBR协议中的网络拓扑结构、数据转发机制及其存在的一些问题。并简单介绍了目前有关DBR的改进路由协议。     

Balance energy-efficient and real-time with reliable communication protocol for wireless sensor network

In many wireless sensor network applications, it should be considered that how to trade off the inherent conflict between energy efficient communication and desired quality of service such as real-time and reliability of transportation. In this paper, a novel routing protocols named balance energy-efficient and real-time with reliable communication (BERR) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are proposed, which considers the joint performances of real-time, energy efficiency and reliability. In BERR, a node, which is preparing to transmit data packets to sink node, estimates the energy cost, hop count value to sink node and reliability using local information gained from neighbor nodes. BERR considers not only each sender’ energy level but also that of its neighbor nodes, so that the better energy conditions a node has, the more probability it will be to be chosen as the next relay node. To enhance real-time delivery, it will choose the node with smaller hop count value to sink node as the possible relay candidate. To improve reliability, it adopts retransmission mechanism. Simulation results show that BERR has better performances in term of energy consumption, network lifetime, reliability and small transmitting delay.     

A reliable and energy‐efficient routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research attention to support various applications for pollution monitoring, tsunami warnings, offshore exploration, tactical surveillance, etc. However, because of the peculiar characteristics of UWSNs, designing communication protocols for UWSNs is a challenging task. Particularly, designing a routing protocol is of the most importance for successful data transmissions between sensors and the sink. In this paper, we propose a reliable and energy‐efficient routing protocol, named R‐ERP²R (Reliable Energy‐efficient Routing Protocol based on physical distance and residual energy). The main idea behind R‐ERP²R is to utilize physical distance as a routing metric and to balance energy consumption among sensors. Furthermore, during the selection of forwarding nodes, link quality towards the forwarding nodes is also considered to provide reliability and the residual energy of the forwarding nodes to prolong network lifetime. Using the NS‐2 simulator, R‐ERP²R is compared against a well‐known routing protocol (i.e. depth‐based routing) in terms of network lifetime, energy consumption, end‐to‐end delay and delivery ratio. The simulation results proved that R‐ERP²R performs better in UWSNs.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

EMGGR: an energy-efficient multipath grid-based geographic routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

Routing in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) is an important and a challenging activity due to the nature of acoustic channels and to the harsh environment. This paper extends our previous work [Al-Salti et al. in Proceedings of cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery (CyberC), Shanghai, pp 331–336, 2014] that proposed a novel multipath grid-based geographical routing (MGGR) protocol for UWSNs. The extended work, EMGGR, viewed the network as logical 3D grids. Routing is performed in a grid-by-grid manner via gateways that use disjoint paths to relay data packets to the sink node. The algorithm consists of three main components: (1) a gateway election algorithm; responsible for electing gateways based on their locations and remaining energy level (2) a mechanism for updating neighboring gateways’ information; allowing sensor nodes to memorize gateways in local and neighboring cells, and (3) a packet forwarding mechanism; in charge of constructing disjoint paths from source cells to destination cells, forwarding packets to the destination and dealing with holes (i.e. cells with no gateways) in the network. The performance of EMGGR has been assessed using Aqua-Sim, which is an NS2 based simulator for UWSNs. Results show that EMGGR is an energy efficient protocol in all simulation setups used in the study. Moreover, EMGGR can also maintain good delivery ratio and end-to-end delay.

     

An energy-efficient distributed node clustering routing protocol with mobility pattern support for underwater wireless sensor networks

Wireless Networks - Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) has received more attention in exploring promising technologies for scientific data collection of underwater natural resources with...     

RQAR: Location-free reliable and QoS-aware routing protocol for mobile sink underwater wireless sensor networks

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have attracted attention from academics and industries due to many applications such as pollution monitoring, military, tsunami warning, and underwater exploration. One of the effective factors in these applications is efficient communication between underwater sensors. But this process is very challenging in UWSNs due to special conditions and underwater harsh environments. Therefore, designing routing protocols for efficient communication between sensors and sink is an important issue in UWSNs. In this context, this paper proposed a location-free Reliable and QoS-Aware Routing (RQAR) protocol for mobile sink UWSNs. RQAR designed using Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and does not require the position information of the sensor nodes, which is cumbersome and difficult to obtain. Proposed protocol considers multiple parameters including link quality, hop count, congestion, and residual energy for qos support, and reliable data delivery RQAR also minimizes the effects of hole occurrence by increasing the transmission range as much as possible and ensures communication stability. The simulation results using NS2 showed the superiority of RQAR in improving end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio, and network throughput compared to the previous methods.     

Enhanced mobility routing protocol for wireless sensor network

Wireless Networks - Recently, the routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) was standardized and is considered as the default standard for routing over the low power and lossy...     

CBE2R: clustered-based energy efficient routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor network

Routing in undersea environment is one of the challenging research areas due to the nature of acoustic channel and underwater harsh environment. In underwater environment, the major challenges are propagation delay, high bit error rates, limited bandwidth, uncontrolled node mobility, water current, 3D deployment and limited resources. Hence, designing an efficient and communication protocols for underwater environment is a challenging issue. To control the node mobility and prolong the battery power of the nodes, we proposed Clustered-Based Energy Efficient Routing (CBE2R) protocol. CBE2R controls the node mobility and prolongs the battery power of nodes by dividing the water depth into seven numbers of layers from top to seabed. CBE2R prolongs the battery power through powerful static courier nodes which are deployed from sea surface to seabed on different layers. Clustered-based routing mechanism with highest weighted value for data forwarding is based on seabed to bottom layer courier nodes through ordinary nodes. Bottom layer courier nodes collects the information from ordinary nodes and forwards to surface sink nodes by maximum power levels (p₁, p₂, …., p_n-1) through courier nodes which are deployed in different layers. For performance analysis the NS2.30 with AquaSim is used. The simulation results of CBE2R are compared with energy efficient REEP, EMGGR, and DRP. From simulation results it is observed that the performance CBE2R is higher than REEP, EMGGR and DRP.     

SERP: secure energy-efficient routing protocol for densely deployed wireless sensor networks

In this paper, we present secure energy-efficient routing protocol (SERP) for densely deployed wireless sensor networks which aims to achieve robust security for transmitted sensor readings with an energy-efficient network backbone. When the sensors with limited energy budgets are deployed in hazardous environment, ensuring energy efficiency and security of the sensor readings becomes a crucial task. Here, we address how to deal with such a deployment scenario. Our protocol ensures secure transmission of data from the source sensors to the base station in a way that it can best utilize the available amount of energy in the network. We use one-way hash chain and pre-stored shared secret keys for ensuring data transmission security. In SERP, first, a sink rooted tree structure is created as the backbone of the network. This energy-efficient network structure is used for authenticated and encrypted data delivery from the source sensors to the base station. To introduce data freshness, SERP includes an optional key refreshment mechanism which could be applied depending on the application at hand. Our analysis and simulation results show that SERP provides a good level of confidentiality and authenticity of data that are transmitted from the sensors to the base station. It also helps for energy-efficient structuring of the network so that the maximum lifetime of the network could be achieved.     

A proposal of a wireless sensor network routing protocol

This paper presents a proposal of a routing protocol to Wireless Sensor Networks, called SHRP (Simple Hierarchical Routing Protocol), whose primary objective is to save battery energy. SHRP also provides both reliability and a load balance solution. As a novel proposal, it is a proactive protocol that chooses efficient routes, by selecting just the nodes that can contribute to extend the network lifetime. In addition this protocol is also able to inform to a central point about any possible disconnection caused by a reduction of battery power or a long interference period. The data defined by SHRP protocol can be aggregated during the sending and forwarding tasks. Redundant data are not sent, which contributes to energy saving. This protocol uses the IEEE 802.15.4 under of CC2420 radio chips and it has been implemented on TinyOS operation system.     

无线传感器网络分簇路由协议研究

经典的分簇路由协议LEACH在无线传感器网络中有着非常广泛的应用,针对LEACH协议在成簇时没有考虑簇头节点的能量等因素的缺陷,为延长网络生存期在LEACH协议基础之上,在簇头选择公式中加入节点剩余能量的参数,使得选举能量较高的节点为簇头,提出改进的LEACH协议。并在网络模拟软件NS2平台下,对改进的LEACH协议与原LEACH协议进行仿真比较分析,结果表明改进后的协议中各个节点能耗均衡,避免个别节点过早衰亡,可以延长网络生存期。     

无线传感器网络路由协议性能研究

无线传感器网络是目前网络研究的热点,其路由协议的设计是最具挑战性的问题之一,对目前典型的无线传感器网络的路由协议进行分类研究和性能分析,设计并实现了在NS2环境下典型协议的仿真场景和性能分析比较。对无线传感器网络路由协议的研究和组网具有参考指导意义。     

ZigBee无线传感网络的路由协议研究

为满足无线网络技术具有低功耗、节点体积小、网络容量大、网络传输可靠等技术要求,设计了一种以MSP430单片机和CC2420射频收发器组成的无线传感节点.通过分析其节点组成,提出了ZigBee技术中的几种网络拓扑形式,并研究了ZigBee路由算法.针对不同的传输要求形式选用不同的网络拓扑形式可以尽大可能地减少系统成本.同时针对不同网络选用正确的ZigBee路由算法有效地减少了网络能量消耗,提高了系统的可靠性.应用试验表明,采用ZigBee方式通信可以提高传输速率且覆盖范围大,与传统的有线通信方式相比可以节约40%左右的成本.     

An efficient elite group-based routing protocol for wireless sensor network

ABSTRACT

In recent days, due to the wide verities of applications of Wireless Sensor Networks, it gets recognition from research communities. As the sensor nodes are operated through limited battery capacity, how to utilise the battery power or energy in an optimum way is a major concern. In this paper, we have addressed the energy issue of wireless sensor networks. We have developed an energy-efficient routing protocol. This paper proposes the Novel Elite group concept where the cluster-head selection process is restricted to only a few high-energy nodes rather than all nodes in the network, which substantially reduces the number of cluster-head selection overhead in every iteration, decreases the energy consumption and increases network lifetime. Our method is compared with three well-known routing protocols, i.e. EECRP (Energy Efficient Centroid-Based Routing Protocol) protocol, NCBR (New Cooperative Balancing Routing Protocol) and Mod-LEACH (Modified low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy Protocol). We have conducted a simulation in NS-2 simulator. We have computed various network quality parameters like Throughput, transmission delay, analysis of the number of dead nodes (reciprocal of alive nodes) and energy dissipation with respect to the number of simulation rounds. The simulation results show that our proposed methodology outperforms the rest of the protocol.     

A data transmission protocol for reliable and energy-efficient data transmission in a wireless sensor-actuator network

In a wireless sensor-actuator network, sensor nodes gather information on the physical world and can deliver messages with sensed values to only nearby nodes due to weak radio. Thus, messages sent by nodes might be lost due to not only collision but also noise. Messages are forwarded by sensor nodes to an actuator node. In the redundant data transmission (RT) protocol, a sensor node sends a message with not only its sensed value but also sensed values received from other sensor nodes. Even if a message with a sensed value v is lost, an actuator node can receive the value v from a message sent by another sensor node. In addition, we have to reduce the energy consumption of a sensor node. A sensor node mainly consumes the energy to send and receive messages. Even if an event occurs, only some number of sensor nodes sensing the event send the sensed values to reduce the total energy consumption. We discuss an energy-efficient data transmission protocol. We evaluate the RT protocol compared with the CSMA protocol in terms of how much sensing data a node can receive in presence of messages loss. We evaluate the RT protocol in terms of how many number of sensed values an actuator node can receive in presence of message loss. We show that about 72% of sensed values can be delivered to an actuator node even if 95% of messages are lost due to noise and collision.     

Hybrid routing and load balancing protocol for wireless sensor network

In wireless sensor network, when the nodes are mobile, the network structure keeps on changing dynamically, that is, new nodes enter the network and old members exit the network. As a result, the path from one node to the other varies from time to time. In addition, if the load on a particular part of the network is high, then the nodes will not be capable of transmitting the data. Thus, data delivery at the destination will be unsuccessful. Moreover, the part of the network involved in transmitting the data should not be overloaded. To overcome these issues, a hybrid routing protocol and load balancing technique is discussed in this paper for the mobile data collectors in which the path from source to destination is ensured before data transmission. The hybrid routing protocol that combines the reactive and proactive approach is used to enhance gradient based routing protocol for low power and lossy networks. This protocol can efficiently handle the movement of multiple sinks. Finally, load balancing is applied over the multiple mobile elements to balance the load of sensor nodes. Simulation results show that this protocol can increase the packet delivery ratio and residual energy with reduced delay and packet drop.     

A network coding based protocol for reliable data transfer in underwater acoustic sensor

VBF-NC (Vector Based Forwarding-Network Coding) is a reliable transport protocol for UWASNs (Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks). It transfers packets, coded by network coding, over relay node sets, which are established by VBF (Vector Based Forwarding) routing protocol. However, only the error correction function of network coding is used by VBF-NC, the most important inbeing of network coding, which cannot only improve the throughput of network but also reduce transmission overhead, is not used by VBF-NC. So, in this paper, a network coding based protocol, called Multiple Paths and Network Coding (MPNC), is proposed. In MPNC, three disjoint paths are established firstly, and then, two groups of packets A and B, coded by network coding, are transmitted over the two side paths individually, and another group of packets C (C = A ⊕ B) are transmitted over the middle path. The results of mathematical analysis and simulations show that, compared with VBF-NC, MPNC not only improve the throughput of network but also has a higher data delivery ratio and lower energy consumption without reducing the data transmission reliability.