Routing plays an important role in energy constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). To conserve energy in WSN, energy-efficiency of the routing protocol is an important design consideration. These protocols should maximize network lifetime and minimize energy consumption. In this thesis, a novel multipath routing protocol is proposed for WSNs, which constructs multiple paths based on residual energy of the nodes. The protocol allows the source node to select a path for data transmission from the set of discovered multiple paths based on cumulative residual energy or variance. Choosing a next-hop node based on energy, and using an alternative path for routing achieves load balancing. The results show that the proposed algorithm M-VAR has lower residual energy variance (96%, 90%, 72%, 12% less) and longer network lifetime (404%, 205%, 115%, 10%) than basic Directed Diffusion, load-balanced Directed Diffusion (LBDD-ED-RD), multipath Directed Diffusion (MDD-CRE), and the proposed algorithm M-CRE, respectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/21280 |
| Date | 06 June 2013 |
| Creators | Rizvi, Saad |
| Contributors | Ferens, Ken (Electrical and Computer Engineering), McNeill, Dean (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Hashemian, Fariborz (Civil Engineering) |
| Source Sets | University of Manitoba Canada |
| Detected Language | English |
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