A mobile agent diffusion routing algorithm for WSNs

Author

Huang, Yunfei ; Wei, Gang ; Xiong, Shangkun ; Shi, Jinglun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

320

Abstract

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is expected to have a significant impact on the efficiency of military and civil applications. Routing in WSNs is very challenging due to their inherent characteristics. Currently, many routing protocols have been proposed for WSNs, and energy efficiency is their primary objective. In the paper, a mobile agent diffusion routing algorithm (MADR) is proposed. It aims at low energy consumption than protocols that flood the whole network with query such as directed diffusion (DD). The MADR is to get a tradeoff between delay time and energy efficiency with mobile agent diffusion. It includes policies used for agent diffusion, sensor node and sink node. Simulation experiments show that MADR has the following advantages: (1) quick response without flooding; (2) energy efficiency with mobile agents.

Keywords

mobile agents; routing protocols; telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; WSN; energy consumption; military-civil applications; mobile agent diffusion routing algorithm; routing protocols; wireless sensor network; Bandwidth; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Floods; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Surveillance; Wireless sensor networks; Mobile Agent; diffusion; energy efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking in China, 2008. ChinaCom 2008. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2373-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2374-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685030

Filename

4685030