GEAMS: A Geographic Energy-Aware Multipath Stream-based routing protocol for WMSNs

Author

Medjiah, Samir ; Ahmed, Toufik ; Krief, Francine

Author_Institution

Ex- Inst. Nat. (INI), Ecole Nat. Super. d´´Inf.(ESI), Algiers, Algeria

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Because sensor nodes operate on power limited batteries, sensor functionalities have to be designed carefully. In particular, designing energy-efficient packet forwarding is important to maximize the lifetime of the network and to minimize the power usage at each node. This paper presents a geographic energy-aware multipath stream-based (GEAMS) routing protocol for WMSNs. GEAMS routing decisions are made online, at each forwarding node in such a way that there is no need to global topology knowledge and maintenance. GEAMS routing protocol performs load-balancing to minimize energy consumption among nodes using twofold policy: (1) smart greedy forwarding and (2) walking back forwarding. Performances evaluations of GEAMS show that it can maximize the network lifetime and guarantee quality of service for video stream transmission in WMSNs.

Keywords

multimedia communication; quality of service; resource allocation; routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; energy consumption; energy-efficient packet forwarding; geographic energy-aware multipath stream; global topology knowledge; load-balancing; network lifetime maximization; quality of service; routing protocol; smart greedy forwarding; walking back forwarding; wireless multimedia sensor network; Base stations; Energy efficiency; Monitoring; Network topology; Quality of service; Routing protocols; Streaming media; Target tracking; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Energy Aware routing; Geographic Routing; Multipath Routing; WMSN; WSN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Infrastructure Symposium, 2009. GIIS '09. Global

Conference_Location

Hammemet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4623-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4624-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GIIS.2009.5307078

Filename

5307078