Title | An Energy-Efficient Multipath Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Lu, Y. M., and V. W. S. Wong |
Conference Name | Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th |
Pagination | 1 -5 |
Date Published | sep. |
Keywords | control overhead, energy consumption, load balancing, multipath channels, multipath routing protocol, multipath search protocol, multiple node-disjoint paths, multiple path traffic, network connectivity, network lifetime, routing protocols, telecommunication traffic, wireless sensor networks |
Abstract | The energy consumption is a key design criterion for the routing protocols in wireless sensor networks. Some of the conventional single path routing schemes may not be optimal to maximize the network lifetime and connectivity. In this paper, we propose a distributed, scalable and localized multipath search protocol to discover multiple node-disjoint paths between the sink and source nodes. We also propose a load balancing algorithm to distribute the traffic over the multiple paths discovered. We compare our proposed scheme with the directed diffusion, directed transmission, and the energy-aware routing protocols. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme has a higher node energy efficiency, lower average delay and control overhead than those protocols. |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VTCF.2006.505 |
DOI | 10.1109/VTCF.2006.505 |