Fuzzy rate control in wireless sensor networks for mitigating congestion

Author

Ghalehnoie, M. ; Yazdani, N. ; Salmasi, F.R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran

fYear

2008

fDate

27-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

312

Lastpage

317

Abstract

Congestion in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an important issue. In this paper, a new method is presented to overcome congestion causes. Actually this is a hop-by-hop rate control approach. In our method, queue length of the nodes is monitored continuously. Then, based on a fuzzy inference system, admissible rate for upstream nodes is calculated based upon sensor nodes constraints. This method is simple and adaptable to network conditions. Simulation results show an improvement in the network functionality such as higher utilization, throughput and smaller delay compared to IEEE 802.11.

Keywords

fuzzy control; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.11; congestion mitigation; delay; fuzzy inference system; fuzzy rate control; hop-by-hop rate control approach; queue length; sensor node constraint; upstream node; wireless sensor network; Broadcasting; Frequency; Fuzzy control; Fuzzy systems; Sensor systems; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication control; Throughput; Topology; Wireless sensor networks; congestion control; fuzzy control; hop-by-hop flow rate control; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2008. IST 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2750-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2751-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTEL.2008.4651320

Filename

4651320