Routing

The lightweight routing protocol with QoS support [1] is proposed for stationary wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs). The protocol provides QoS by differentiating the rates among different types of interests with dynamic packet tagging at sensor nodes and per flow management at actor nodes. In this setting, another method [2] is also introduced to dynamically determine the weights of the interests by using a nonsensitive ranking algorithm, which depends on the variation in the observed values of collected data. The lightweight routing protocol for WSANs is also applied to the networks with mobile sensor nodes [3] and integrated with a network organization protocol [4], in which the actor nodes are pre-assigned cluster heads and multi-hop clusters are formed as the sensor nodes move in the environment.

Information on some implementation details can be found here.

[1] M. I. Akbas and D. Turgut. “Lightweight Routing with QoS Support in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks”. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–5, December 2010.

[2] M. I. Akbas, D. Turgut. “Lightweight Routing with Dynamic Interests in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks” Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 11 (8), pp. 2313-2328, November, 2013.

[3] M. I. Akbas, M. R. Brust, and D. Turgut. “SOFROP: Self-Organizing and Fair Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks with Mobile Sensors and Stationary Actors” In the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp. 456–463, October 2010.

[4] M. I. Akbas, M. R. Brust, and D. Turgut. “SOFROP: Self-Organizing and Fair Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks with Mobile Sensors and Stationary Actors” Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, 34 (18), pp. 2135-2146, December 2011.