Near-optimal data propagation by efficiently advertising obstacle boundaries

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Koutsopoulos;Sotiris Nikoletseas;José D.P. Rolim

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Patras and CTI, Patras, Greece;University of Patras and CTI, Patras, Greece;University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose local mechanisms for efficiently marking the broader network region around obstacles, for data propagation to early enough avoid them towards near-optimal routing paths. In particular, our methods perform an on-line identification of sensors lying near obstacle boundaries, which then appropriately emit beacon messages in the network towards establishing efficient obstacle avoidance paths. We provide a variety of beacon dissemination schemes that satisfy different trade-offs between protocol overhead and performance. Compared to greedy, face routing and trust-based methods in the state of the art, our methods achieve significantly shorter propagation paths, while introducing much lower overhead and converging faster to near-optimality.