A novel metric for opportunistic routing in heterogenous duty-cycled wireless sensor networks

Thanh Dinh, Tao Gu

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Abstract

This paper investigates the suboptimal problem of existing state-of-the-art routing protocols when they are applied to heterogeneous duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, we discover that the selected optimal routes with the least cost based their routing metric may not always lead to the least transmission cost. The key reason is that the existing routing metrics used do not sufficiently capture packet transmission cost in heterogeneous duty-cycled WSNs. To address this issue, we propose a novel routing metric, namely expected transmission cost (ETC), which efficiently captures packet transmission cost in heterogeneous duty-cycled WSNs by estimating both expected rendezvous cost and communication cost. Based on ETC, we design an opportunistic routing protocol (EoR) which is proved to select optimal routes with the least packet transmission cost. Our experimental results show that EoR outperforms the state-of-the-art protocols in terms of energy efficiency, latency, and packet delivery ratio.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2015
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages224-234
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9781467382953
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (23rd : 2015) - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 10 Nov 201513 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
Volume2016-March
ISSN (Print)1092-1648

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (23rd : 2015)
Abbreviated titleICNP 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period10/11/1513/11/15

Keywords

  • Expected rendezvous cost
  • Heterogeneous duty-cycled
  • Opportunistic routing
  • Wireless sensor network

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