End-to-End Delay and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Providing better communication and maximising the communication performance in a Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is always challenging due to the volatile characteristics of the underwater environment. Radio signals cannot properly propagate underwater, so there is a need for acoustic technology that can support better data rates and reliable underwater wireless communications. Node mobility, 3-D spaces and horizontal communication links are some critical challenges to the researcher in designing new routing protocols for UWSNs. In this paper, we have proposed a novel routing protocol called Layer by layer Angle-Based Flooding (L2-ABF) to address the issues of continuous node movements, end-to-end delays and energy consumption. In L2-ABF, every node can calculate its flooding angle to forward data packets toward the sinks without using any explicit configuration or location information. The simulation results show that L2-ABF has some advantages over some existing flooding-based techniques and also can easily manage quick routing changes where node movements are frequent.     

Double Cluster Based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Reducing the energy consumption of sensor nodes and prolonging the life of the network is the central topic in the research of wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol. The low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) is one of the hierarchical routing protocols designed for communication in WSNs. LEACH is clustering based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster-heads to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network. But LEACH is based on the assumption that each sensor nodes contain equal amount of energy which is not valid in real scenarios. A developed routing protocol named as DL-LEACH is proposed. The DL-LEACH protocol cluster head election considers residual energy of nodes, distance from node to the base station and neighbor nodes, which makes cluster head election reasonable and node energy consumption balance. The simulation results of proposed protocols are compared for its network life time in MATLAB with LEACH protocol. The DL-LEACH is prolong the network life cycle by 75 % than LEACH.     

Energy Efficient Fuzzy Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - Energy efficiency to route data in wireless sensor networks is key concern to enhance network lifetime. In this paper, an energy efficient routing protocol has...     

The Cooperative-Communication Based Underwater Layered Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Personal Communications - Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) employs a lens antenna array for minimizing the radio frequency (RF) chains count, yet it remains as...     

基于非均匀分簇的能耗高效WSN路由协议

本文提出了能耗高效的非均匀分簇路由协议（EERP）.核心为由远及近依次求取各层成簇半径值,使得靠近sink节点的成簇半径小于远离sink节点的成簇半径;以节点剩余能量和相对距离为每个节点确定簇首竞争能力;簇间采用动态路由;依据接收比特值和簇首节点剩余能量发起簇重构.在Omnet＋＋仿真平台下模拟实验结果显示,EERP有效的均衡了全网节点能耗,显著延长了网络生命周期.     

Energy Efficient Shortest Path Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Personal Communications - While several protocols are proposed in performing sub aquatic communication, routing and issues related to efficiency of energy are considered as important for...     

A New Energy Efficient Hierarchical Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of low cost sensor nodes which have limited power supplies, memory capacity, processing capability and transmission rate. Sensor nodes gather information from the environment and send the collected information to base station with help of a routing cooperation. Because of limited resources in Wireless Sensor Networks, fulfilling these routing operations is a major problem. Routing protocols are used to perform these operations. The most important thing by considering while these protocols are designed is energy efficiency. Because wireless sensor networks are widely used in intelligent systems, the energy efficiency of these networks is very important in IoT. Researchers have proposed several hierarchical routing protocols such as LEACH, PEGASIS, TEEN and APTEEN. In this study, an energy efficient routing protocol is developed which is more efficient than currently avaliable routing protocols. The developed protocol involves mapping of the network, sleep–wake/load balancing, data merge processes. The proposed protocol gives better results than other protocols in number of surviving nodes and amount of energy consumed criterias.     

A Distributed Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

The design of routing protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) poses many challenges due to the intrinsic properties of underwater environments. In this paper we present DUCS (Distributed Underwater Clustering Scheme), a new GPS-free routing protocol that does not use flooding techniques, minimizes the proactive routing message exchange and uses data aggregation to eliminate redundant information. Besides, DUCS assumes random node mobility and compensates the high propagation delays of the underwater medium using a continually adjusted timing advance combined with guard time values to minimize data loss. The theoretical and simulation studies carried out demonstrate its effectiveness.     

A Vector-Based Routing Protocol in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

One major concern shared by many researchers about underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), with respect to the limitations and particularities of underwater environment, is the problem of routing. These limitations include three-dimensional topology, limited bandwidth, node movement, long delay, limited energy, and construction costs. The new routing protocols for underwater networks have been developed on the basis of voracious routing systems. The main problem with UWSNs is finding an efficient route between the source and the target to send more packets to the target with lower levels of energy consumption. In this research, by improving VBF algorithm, which is dependent on the radius of the routing pipe, an algorithm is introduced which considers pipe radius as a function of the environment’s dimensions and of the range and the number of nodes. Consequently, by changing one of these parameters, the radius of the routing pipe changes. However, to control the energy consumed by the nodes, there exists a function that, if the recipient node’s energy to receive the packet is much lower than that of the sender node, the proposed method reduces the size of the routing pipe’s radius to lessen its chance of being selected as the guiding node so that other nodes are able to have the chance of getting the packet’s guiding node. The proposed algorithm has been compared with VBVA, HHVBF, and VBF protocols; the simulation results obtained from NS-2 simulator indicate that the proposed protocol could cut back on energy consumption, especially in networks with high number of nodes, by relying on changing the width of the routing pipe in proportion to network density. It was also successful in delivering more packets in non-dense networks.     

移动无线传感网络簇头多跳路由协议

随着无线传感器网络在移动环境中广泛应用,移动环境下降低能耗成了传感网络研究的热点.通过研究移动环境下的各种路由协议,并结合LEACH协议自身存在的问题,提出了一种支持移动的簇头多跳的路由算法.该协议充分考虑了剩余能量、速度和距离,以及簇头选取和簇的构成方法,提出新的权值函数,从而有效地支持节点移动.仿真结果表明,该协议有效地均衡了节点能耗,提高了能量利用率,延长了网络寿命.     

一种能量有效的无线传感器网络路由算法

无线传感器网络中传感器节点能量有限,为了提高能量利用率,针对现有算法随机选择簇首、簇结构不合理等缺陷提出了一种新的能量有效的分簇路由算法EERA.EERA采用新的簇首选举、成簇,以及构建簇间路由算法,基于节点剩余能量与节点的相对位置选择簇首、成簇,使剩余能量较多的节点优先成为簇首并且各簇首能较均匀的分布在网络区域内;构建簇间路由时将最小跳数路由算法与改进的MTE算法结合起来,在簇间形成最小跳数、最小能耗路径.仿真结果表明,EERA算法可以均衡全网能量消耗,延长网络的生命周期.     

A Uniform Balancing Energy Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

In wireless sensor network, the power supply is, generally, a non-renewable battery. Consequently, energy effectiveness is a crucial factor. To maximize the battery life and therefore, the duration of network service, a robust wireless communication protocol providing a best energy efficiency is required. In this paper, we present a uniform balancing energy routing protocol. In this later the transmission path is chosen for maximizing the whole network lifetime. Every transmission round, only the nodes which have their remaining energies greater than a threshold can participate as routers for other nodes in addition to sensing the environment. This choice allows the distribution of energy load among any sensor nodes; thus extends network lifetime. The experimental results shows that the proposed protocol outperforms some protocols given in the literature.     

A Novel Energy Efficient and Lifetime Maximization Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

The energy consumption is a key design criterion for the routing protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Some of the conventional single path routing schemes may not be optimal to maximize the network lifetime and connectivity. Thus, multipath routing schemes is an optimal alternative to extend the lifetime of WSN. Multipath routing schemes distribute the traffic across multiple paths instead of routing all the traffic along a single path. In this paper, we propose a multipath Energy-Efficient data Routing Protocol for wireless sensor networks (EERP). The latter keeps a set of good paths and chooses one based on the node state and the cost function of this path. In EERP, each node has a number of neighbours through which it can route packets to the base station. A node bases its routing decision on two metrics: state and cost function. It searches its Neighbours Information Table for all its neighbours concerned with minimum cost function. Simulation results show that our EERP protocol minimizes and balances the energy consumption well among all sensor nodes and achieves an obvious improvement on the network lifetime.     

MRP: A Localization-Free Multi-Layered Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have distinctive characteristics due to the use of acoustic signals as its physical medium for communications, including high propagation delay, limited bandwidth and high error rates. Hence, designing communication protocols, particularly, an efficient routing protocol for UWSNs is a challenging issue. Routing protocols can take advantage of the localization of sensor nodes. However, the localization itself is not impeccable in UWSNs. In this paper, we therefore propose a localization-free routing protocol named MRP (multi-layered routing protocol) for UWSNs. MRP utilizes super nodes in order to eliminate the need of localization. MRP works in two phases: Layering phase and Data forwarding phase. During layering phase, different layers are formed around the super nodes. In data forwarding phase, data packets are forwarded based on these layers. Through simulation study using NS-2 simulator, we proved that MRP contributes significant performance improvements against representative routing protocols.     

Energy Efficient Message Priority Based Routing Protocol for Aquaculture Applications Using Underwater Sensor Network

Wireless Personal Communications - Aquaculture yield is determined by water characteristics of the farming area. The yield can be maximized by monitoring water parameters on a timely basis and...     

An Adaptive Fuzzy-Based Clustering and Bio-Inspired Energy Efficient Hierarchical Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based Communication has been devised for exchanging data with low cost, minimal maintenance, and for more convenience. These...     

Cluster-Head Restricted Energy Efficient Protocol (CREEP) for Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

A magnanimous number of collaborative sensor nodes make up a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). These sensor nodes are outfitted with low-cost and low-power sensors. The routing protocols are responsible for ensuring communications while considering the energy constraints of the system. Achieving a higher network lifetime is the need of the hour in WSNs. Currently, many network layer protocols are considering a heterogeneous WSN, wherein a certain number of the sensors are rendered higher energy as compared to the rest of the nodes. In this paper, we have critically analysed the various stationary heterogeneous clustering algorithms and assessed their lifetime and throughput performance in mobile node settings also. Although many newer variants of Distributed Energy-Efficiency Clustering (DEEC) scheme execute proficiently in terms of energy efficiency, they suffer from high system complexity due to computation and selection of large number of Cluster Heads (CHs). A protocol in form of Cluster-head Restricted Energy Efficient Protocol (CREEP) has been proposed to overcome this limitation and to further improve the network lifetime by modifying the CH selection thresholds in a two-level heterogeneous WSN. Simulation results establish that proposed solution ameliorates in terms of network lifetime as compared to others in stationary as well as mobile WSN scenarios.     

WSN中一种基于剩余能量级别的负载均衡路由协议

文中提出了一种WSN中基于剩余能量级别的负载均衡的分簇路由协议REICRP.在簇的建立阶段,RELCRP采用了基于优先级的簇头选取策略,高优先级的节点能更早地广播簇头竞选通告,从而避免剩余能量低的节点成为簇头.簇间通信采用单跳一多跳混合传输模式,簇头节点根据剩余能量级别切换传输方式,以缓解"热点"问题.仿真结果表明:RELCRP有效地均衡了网络中节点的能量消耗,延长了网络的生存时间.     

Routing Protocol Based on Tabu Search for Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper investigates the proposition of a new routing protocol for wireless sensor networks called TSRP (Tabu Search based Routing Protocol). In this protocol, we use the mechanism of the meta-heuristic Tabu search to route the data from the sensor (that has sense the events) to the sink. This mechanism is used to select the next sensor that will route the data based on a cost function (considering the energy and the visibility of this sensor compared to the sink). Simulation results, on a car parking application, show that TSRP prolongs the network lifetime than the existing protocols.