TY - GEN
T1 - Improving the energy balance of field-based routing in wireless sensor networks
AU - Trajcevski, Goce
AU - Ghica, Oliviu
AU - Scheuermann, Peter
AU - Zúñiga, Marco
AU - Schubotz, René
AU - Hauswirth, Manfred
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - For high-density networks, several studies have proposed field-based routing paradigms to uniformly distribute the traffic load throughout the network. However, as network density decreases, we observe major shortcomings of the current state-of-the-art: (i) fewer number of neighbors reduce the number of available paths and leads to path merging and (ii) the paths directed towards the border of the network merge into a single path. These path merging effects decrease significantly the energy balance, and as consequence, the lifetime of the network. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism to enable a better load balancing for single-source and multiple-source scenarios. Our evaluations demonstrate that by using the proposed methodology, the network lifetime can be prolonged between 30% and 40%.
AB - For high-density networks, several studies have proposed field-based routing paradigms to uniformly distribute the traffic load throughout the network. However, as network density decreases, we observe major shortcomings of the current state-of-the-art: (i) fewer number of neighbors reduce the number of available paths and leads to path merging and (ii) the paths directed towards the border of the network merge into a single path. These path merging effects decrease significantly the energy balance, and as consequence, the lifetime of the network. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism to enable a better load balancing for single-source and multiple-source scenarios. Our evaluations demonstrate that by using the proposed methodology, the network lifetime can be prolonged between 30% and 40%.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79551644774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684279
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684279
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79551644774
SN - 9781424456383
T3 - GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
BT - 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
T2 - 53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
Y2 - 6 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -