A hybrid location-semantic approach to routing assisted by agents in a virtual network

  • Authors:
  • Nafaa Jabeur;Phil Graniero

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Windsor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ontario, Canada;University of Windsor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Routing in Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Network (AWSN) has been addressed by several research works which can basically be divided into flatbased, hierarchical-based, and location-based routing depending on the network structure. Despite advances in these interesting works, straightforward messages routing is still extremely difficult. We still seek a flexible approach that provides sensors with enough autonomy and processing capabilities to determine secure, lower-cost, and reliable routes while preventing the routing of unused data that burdens sensors. To meet this goal, we propose a requirementdriven approach that uses geographic-based routing to focus sensing efforts in areas of interest, plus semantic-based routing to determine and use relevant sensors semantically connected with respect to current monitoring requirements. By moving most intensive processing into a virtual network running in parallel to the physical AWSN, our approach uses software agents to reduce network resource consumption and find enhanced routing pathways.