Traffic and resource based methods for congestion control in wireless sensor networks: A comparative analysis

Author

Pant, Neha ; Singh, M.P. ; Kumar, Prabhat

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., NIT Patna, Patna, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Congestion is one of the several significant issues in wireless sensor networks that need proper attention. The wireless sensor networks may encounter unpredictable load when an event takes place. Congestion may occur when data packets arrive at node and there is no space in the buffer. Congestion may also occur when all sensors send the data at the same time. This causes wastage of limited energy, throughput reduction and loss and delay of packet. This paper presents a survey of traffic control and resource control mechanisms to control congestion in wireless sensor networks. It presents their significance, limitations and makes a comparison among them on the basis of various factors which would help in the future research and investigation in this particular area.

Keywords

telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; wireless sensor networks; congestion control; data packets; packet delay; resource based methods; resource control mechanisms; throughput reduction; traffic based methods; traffic control; wireless sensor networks; Network topology; Protocols; Sensors; Throughput; Topology; Traffic control; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless Sensor Networks; congestion; congestion control; congestion notification; fairness; resource control; traffic rate control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST), 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASTECH.2014.7068066

Filename

7068066