Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), being a relatively new technology, largely employ
protocols designed for other ad hoc networks, especially mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).
However, on the basis of applications, there are many differences between WSNs and
other types of ad hoc network and so WSNs would benefit from protocols which take
into account their specific properties, especially in routing. Bhatti and Yue (2006) proposed
an addressing scheme for multi-hop networks. It provides a systematic address
structure for WSNs and allows network topology to avoid the fatal node failure problem
which could occur with the ZigBee tree structure. In this work, a new routing strategy
is developed based on Bhatti and Yue’s addressing scheme. The new approach is to implement
a hybrid flooding scheme that combines flooding with shortest-path methods
to yield a more practical routing protocol for static WSN applications. The primary
idea is to set a flooding counter K as an overhead parameter of control messages which
are used to discover routes between any arbitrary nodes. These route request messages
are flooded for K hops and then oriented by shortest-path routing from multiple nodes
in the edge of the flooding area to the destination. The simulation results show that this
protocol under certain wireless circumstances is more energy conscious and produces
less redundancy than reactive ZigBee routing protocol. Another advantage is that the
routing protocol can adapt any dynamic environment in various WSN applications to
achieve a satisfactory data delivery ratio in exchange for redundancy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/2110 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Li, Weibo |
| Publisher | University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
| Rights | Copyright Weibo Li, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
| Relation | NZCU |
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