An Online Multipath Routing Algorithm for Maximizing Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Mahmood R. Minhas;Sathish Gopalakrishnan;Victor C. M. Leung

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITNG '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We address the maximum lifetime routing problem in wireless sensor networks, and present an online multipath routing algorithm. The proposed algorithm strives to maximize the network lifetime metric by distributing the source-to-sink traffic for a given routing request along a set of paths. Fuzzy membership function is used for designing the edge weight function. Simulation results obtained under a variety of network scenarios show that the proposed multipath scheme is able to achieve better lifetime results than those obtained by its predecessor single-path fuzzy routing scheme as well as by another well-known online routing scheme, namely the Online Maximum Lifetime heuristic.