Title :
P-iRP: Physarum-Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Mingchuan Zhang ; Changqiao Xu ; Jianfeng Guan ; Ruijuan Zheng ; Qingtao Wu ; Hongke Zhang
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Networking & Switching Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
There is a trade-off between routing efficiency and energy equilibrium for sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Inspired by the large and single-celled amoeboid organism-slime mold physarum polycephalum, this paper presents a novel physarum-inspired routing protocol (P-iRP) for WSNs to address the above issue. In P-iRP, a sensor node selects its proper next hop by using a proposed physarum-inspired selecting next hop model (PSN), which considers comprehensively the distance, energy residue and location of the next hop. We introduce the PSN´s routing selecting strategy and detail PiRP´s algorithms. Simulation results show how P-iRP can achieve the effective trade-off between routing efficiency and energy equilibrium compared to existing classical algorithms.
Keywords :
routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; P-iRP algorithms; PSN; WSN; energy equilibrium; energy residue; physarum-inspired routing protocol; physarum-inspired selecting next hop model; routing efficiency; sensor nodes; single-celled amoeboid organism; slime mold physarum polycephalum; wireless sensor networks; Batteries; Gears; Mathematical model; Routing; Routing protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2013 IEEE 78th
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
DOI :
10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692365