LACAR: Location Aided Congestion Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Bhuiyan, Mohammad Masumuzzaman ; Gondal, Iqbal ; Kamruzzaman, Joarder

Author_Institution

Gippsland Sch. of Inf. Technol., Monash Univ., Churchill, VIC, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

18-21 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Trade-off between energy-efficiency and reliability in wireless sensor networks is application dependent. Without the reliability, the extended lifetime of a network is of limited use. Due to the inherent correlation between reliability and congestion, it is necessary to reduce congestion to improve reliability. Existing congestion control algorithms in wireless sensor networks are reactive. They attempt to reduce the congestion only after its detection. In this paper, we present Location Aided Congestion Aware Routing (LACAR) protocol that proactively avoids congestion formation and improves data delivery success rate in data gathering wireless sensor networks. Location, energy and congestion information of neighbours together with the location information of the base station determine appropriate routes. Simulation results show that LACAR achieves high packet success rate in an energy-efficient way.

Keywords

mobility management (mobile radio); routing protocols; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; LACAR; congestion control algorithms; location aided congestion aware routing; location information; network reliability; wireless sensor networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Base stations; Batteries; Communications Society; Energy efficiency; Information technology; Routing protocols; Streaming media; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6396-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506713

Filename

5506713