The Ad Hoc on-demand distance-vector protocol
Ad hoc networking
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
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The integration of ground wireless adhoc networks and airborne UAVs is a promising solution for realtime data collection in wireless sensor networks. Such networks play a vital role in many mission critical tasks such as forest fire-fighting and battlefield support. An important problem is to establish/maintain efficient routing structures in the ground sensor network for packet relaying. Our problem is unique in that the base stations are non-static, which necessitates frequent update of the routing structure. The performance of flooding based methods are evaluated. Particularly, in order to deal with non-uniform node density, we propose to introduce an artificial delay factor to control the flooding pattern. We mathematically prove that the delay should be proportional to local node density. Our simulation results show that the proposed method achieves good load balance among multiple base stations.