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Traffic Adaptive Routing for Mobile Sensor Networks

Ki Sup HONG, Sang Hoon LEE, Lynn CHOI

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Existing MANET routing protocols may not be efficient for mobile sensor networks (MSNs) since they generate too much control traffic by relying on flooding or route maintenance messages. Furthermore, peer-to-peer communication patterns assumed in MANET would exacerbate the traffic around sink nodes in MSNs. In this paper we propose traffic adaptive routing (TAR) for MSNs; it can reduce the control packets by analyzing and predicting the source, volume, and the patterns of both traffic and mobility. Through its analysis and the prediction of mobility, TAR also copes with dynamic topology changes by carrying out a fast route recovery process. Our theoretical analysis shows that TAR can effectively reduce unnecessary control packet flooding by 53% on average when compared to AODV. We implement TAR on NS-2. Our experimental evaluation confirms that TAR can not only improve the network and energy performance for MSNs but also can be a practical routing solution for MANET and WSNs compared to the existing ad hoc routing protocols.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.5 pp.1097-1111
Publication Date
2013/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E96.B.1097
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Network

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