Analysis and enhancement of on-demand routing in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • Daniel Peter Dallas;Christopher A. Leckie;Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

  • Affiliations:

  • The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This work includes an analysis of route initialization and route optimality in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The design of routing protocols for WSNs has not taken full advantage of routing protocols designed for purely ad hoc networks; however, valuable applications are envisioned for WSNs that are both mobile and ad hoc. The potential value of mobile and ad hoc WSNs has motivated this work, which aims to adapt ad hoc routing protocols to WSNs having many-to-one traffic patterns. This work proposes an enhanced route initializing procedure for on-demand routing and evaluates the improvement observed under empirical testing. During route initialization, the enhancement reduced power consumption by 99.7 percent. which has great significance when considering the stringent energy constraints in WSNs. Furthermore, the proposed enhancement established routes to a central base station (BS) over one hundred times faster than standard AODV in a WSN comprising 400 sensors. In WSNs, actuation of the sensors' transceivers incurs a relatively large drain on the limited power resources. In order to reduce this drain, the proposed enhancement minimizes the routing traffic overhead, which demonstrates substantial energy savings that are vital to prolonging a WSN's lifetime.