A hybrid beaconless geographic routing for different packets in WSN

The localized operation and stateless features of geographic routing make it become an attractive routing scheme for wireless sensor network (WSN). In this paper, we proposed a novel routing protocol, hybrid beaconless geographic routing (HBGR), which provides different mechanisms for different packets. Based on the requirement of application on latency, we divide the packets of WSN into delay sensitive packets and normal packets. HBGR uses two kinds of Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send handshaking mechanisms for delay sensitive packets and normal packets, and assigns them different priority to obtain the channel. The simplified analysis is given, which proves that delay sensitive packets have lower latency and higher priority to obtain the channel than normal packets. Moreover, forwarding area division scheme is proposed to optimize the forwarder selection. Simulation results show that HBGR achieves higher packet delivery ratio, lower End-to-End latency and lower energy consumption than existing protocols under different packet generation rates in stationary and mobility scenario. Besides, compared with normal packets, delay sensitive packets have at least 10 % (9 %) improvement in terms of End-to-End latency. The improvement increases with the increasing of packet generation rate, and achieves 58 % (73 %) when the packet generation rate is 24 packets per second in stationary (mobility) scenario.