Performance evaluation of agent and non-agent based data dissemination protocols for wireless sensor networks

Author

Gupta, Govind P. ; Misra, Manoj ; Garg, Kumkum

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Roorkee, India

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

128

Abstract

One of the fundamental requirements of energy-constrained wireless sensor networks is to prolong the network lifetime which strongly depends on the data dissemination protocol used. A variety of different energy efficient data dissemination protocols are proposed in recent years. However there is little performance evaluation information on each protocol and no realistic performance comparison in the same scenario between them is available. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive performance evaluation and comparison of agent-based and non-agent based data dissemination protocols. Our simulation study provides useful insights for the network designer such as which data dissemination protocols scale well, reduce overall energy consumption or improve task completion time.

Keywords

data communication; information dissemination; multi-agent systems; protocols; wireless sensor networks; agent based data dissemination protocols; energy efficiency; network lifetime; non-agent based data dissemination protocols; performance evaluation; wireless sensor networks; Energy consumption; Low earth orbit satellites; Mobile agents; Protocols; Routing; Time factors; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network; data dissemination; mobile agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks (ICON), 2011 17th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1556-6463

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1824-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2011.6168518

Filename

6168518