Performance study of node placement for geographic routing in WSNs

Author

Popescu, A.M. ; Tudorache, G.I. ; Kemp, A.H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

WSN routing performance can be affected by how nodes are placed in the given network surface. This paper presents a performance study of geographic routing in WSNs when different network topologies are employed for a forest fire prevention application scenario. A MATLAB simulation script has been developed for this research. Packet forwarding employs geographic routing based on progress towards destination. The simulator considers a realistic channel with a log normal shadowing model. Neighbor detection is performed by calculating the received signal power and the SNR. The studied topologies are Uniform Deterministic (Grid), Uniform Random (Constant Placement), Simple Diffusion (Gaussian), Pareto, Stensor and StensorX. The network performance is analyzed with respect to packet delivery ratio, average number of hops per packet, delay and energy consumption caused by MAC retrials. Routing failures are analyzed as well as their possible causes. Simulations are run for various network densities in a reasonable forest sized area and show which topology performs better with geographic routing in the particular scenario presented here.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; Pareto analysis; log normal distribution; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; Gaussian method; MAC retrials; MATLAB simulation script; Pareto method; StensorX; constant placement; delay consumption; energy consumption; forest fire prevention application scenario; geographic routing; log normal shadowing model; neighbor detection; network densities; network topologies; node placement; packet delivery ratio; packet forwarding; received signal power; simple diffusion; uniform deterministic; uniform random; wireless sensor networks; Delay; Fires; Network topology; Routing; Sensors; Topology; Wireless sensor networks; geographic routing; network toplogies; node distributions; node placement; node topologies; performance study;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technologies Workshop (Swe-CTW), 2011 IEEE Swedish

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1877-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1876-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Swe-CTW.2011.6082480

Filename

6082480