Title: EDR: efficient data routing in wireless sensor networks

Authors: Mohammad Hossein Anisi; Abdul Hanan Abdullah; Yahaya Coulibaly; Shukor Abd Razak

Addresses: Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia

Abstract: Routing in sensor networks is very challenging compared to contemporary communication and wireless ad-hoc networks. This is attributed to several characteristics that distinguish them from such networks. Transmitting data from every sensor node within the deployment region might result in significant and unnecessary redundancy in data and incur avoidable energy and traffic expenditure; thus, a routing protocol which is able to select a set of sensor nodes and utilise data aggregation during the relaying of data is of great importance. Furthermore, timely delivery of data is required in many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), such as real-time target tracking in battle environments, emergent event triggering in monitoring applications impose the need of efficient routing protocol. In this paper, we propose a data routing scheme which ensures increased network lifetime by exploiting energy efficiently, supporting reliability, fast delivery of delay-sensitive data and achieving low-cost sensor design. Simulation results demonstrate that, the proposed routing scheme outperforms related existing approaches in terms of all the evaluation metrics such as packet delivery ratio, energy efficiency and timely delivery of data.

Keywords: WSN; wireless sensor networks; energy efficiency; timely delivery; efficient data routing; network lifetime; simulation; packet delivery ratio.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.051390

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.12 No.1, pp.46 - 55

Received: 04 Oct 2011
Accepted: 08 Apr 2012
Published online: 14 Jan 2013 *

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