Title: A fault-tolerant routing protocol in wireless sensor networks

Authors: Hsi-Lu Chao, Chen-Lung Chang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. ' Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant routing protocol, called Sensor On-demand Multi-path Distance Vector Reliable (SOMDV-R) routing protocol, for wireless sensor networks to support reliable data delivery. Instead of selecting a shortest path, SOMDV-R takes into account both reliability demand and link quality to determine the number of desired paths. Beside, to improve packet delivery rate upon band channel condition, SOMDV-R supports multipath data delivery. We evaluate our proposed protocol via simulations. The results show that compared with Ad hoc On-demand Multi-path Distance Vector (AOMDV) and AODV, SOMDV-R can achieve higher packet delivery rate, lower routing overhead and lower mean latency, upon different channel conditions.

Keywords: reliable routing; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; wireless networks; fault tolerant routing; routing protocols; data delivery reliability; link quality; simulation; packet delivery rate; routing overhead; mean latency.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2008.016463

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2008 Vol.3 No.1, pp.66 - 73

Published online: 30 Dec 2007 *

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