Title: An improved self routing scheme by using parent-child relationship and beacon-only period for WSNs

Authors: Yeon-Mo Yang, Sunmyeng Kim

Addresses: Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KNIT), 1 Yangho-dong, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, 730-701, Korea. ' Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KNIT), 1 Yangho-dong, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, 730-701, Korea

Abstract: The IEEE Standard 802.15.4 for wireless personal area networks shows promise of bringing ubiquitous sensor networking into reality, at least technically. In this paper, a beacon-based self routing (BSR) scheme of a beacon-only period (BOP) mode is presented. The proposed scheme, BSR routes packets from sensor nodes to sink based on the parent-child relationships and from the sink to sensor nodes by BOP formation. Simulation results using TOSSIM (TinyOS SIMulator) and experimental results with Mica-Z show that the BSR scheme outperforms well in comparison to the conventional AODV routing scheme over the parameters such as: average throughput, number of collisions, number of network commands and delivery ratio. Since this work considers utilising beacon payload for routing information delivery in contrast to the previously published in-band conveying approach like AODV, it is concluded that this algorithm could provide better optimisation during the commercialising phase with regard to the level of expectations.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; ad hoc routing protocols; quality-of-service; QoS; self routing; super frame; beacon enabled networks; wireless networks; simulation; average throughput; collisions; network commands; delivery ratio; beacon payload.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2010.034972

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2010 Vol.2 No.4, pp.279 - 301

Published online: 31 Aug 2010 *

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