A novel routing protocol for ad hoc sensor networks using multiple disjoint paths

Author

Zhou, Xun ; Lu, Yu ; Xi, Bin

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Commun. Eng., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu

fYear

2005

fDate

7-7 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

944

Abstract

Routing in ad hoc sensor networks is a complicated task because of many reasons. For traffic engineering, multipath capabilities are important. This paper, a source routing based multi-path OLSR (SR-MPOLSR) protocol is proposed. In this protocol, MPRs (multi-point relays) are used to obtain the network topology effectively and multiple Dijkstra algorithms are used to calculate multiple routes and to allocate the loads in a weighted round-robin fashion. Data transmission at the source is carried out through predetermined multiple paths (hence source routing). Our experiments have shown that SR-MPOLSR can, to some extent, increase the utility of network resources and network throughput, improve robustness and reliability of the transmission service, and reduce the average transmission delay

Keywords

ad hoc networks; data communication; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; ad hoc sensor networks; data transmission; multiple Dijkstra algorithms; multiple disjoint paths; multipoint relays; network resources; network throughput; network topology; routing protocol; source routing based multipath OLSR; transmission service; weighted round-robin fashion; Computer science; Data communication; Network topology; Relays; Robustness; Round robin; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Networks, 2005. BroadNets 2005. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9276-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589706

Filename

1589706