Cite as:
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 Local Computer Networks (LCN'10), pp. 456–463, October 2010.
Abstract:
Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) have become increasingly popular in recent years. The cooperative operation between sensor and actor nodes results in a major advantage against pure sensor networks and extends the range of possible application scenarios. One emerging application is the Amazon scenario in which stationary actors are deployed at accessible points in a thick forest structure and sensor nodes are thrown in a river flowing through the forest to gather observations from unreachable areas of the forest. These unprecedented and unique settings expose two important challenges:(a) the dynamics of the river forms a continuously varying topology of sensor nodes requiring a highly adaptive network organization and (b) the inherent dynamics of WSANs and rapid changes in available resources require adaptive and flexible data transmission at runtime. In this paper, we address these challenges by introducing SOFROP, a novel self-organizing and fair routing protocol for WSANs. A lightweight and computation-efficient algorithm optimized for providing fairness and a locally acting adaptive overlay network for data transmission are the highlights of SOFROP that have been shown through extensive simulations.
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{AkbasLCN10,
author = "M. I. Akbas and M. R. Brust and D. Turgut",
title = "SOFROP: Self-Organizing and Fair Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks with Mobile Sensors and Stationary Actors",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 2010 Local Computer Networks (LCN)",
pages = "456--463",
month = "October",
year = "2010",
abstract = {Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) have become increasingly popular in recent years. The cooperative operation between sensor and actor nodes results in a major advantage against pure sensor networks and extends the range of possible application scenarios. One emerging application is the Amazon scenario in which stationary actors are deployed at accessible points in a thick forest structure and sensor nodes are thrown in a river flowing through the forest to gather observations from unreachable areas of the forest. These unprecedented and unique settings expose two important challenges:(a) the dynamics of the river forms a continuously varying topology of sensor nodes requiring a highly adaptive network organization and (b) the inherent dynamics of WSANs and rapid changes in available resources require adaptive and flexible data transmission at runtime. In this paper, we address these challenges by introducing SOFROP, a novel self-organizing and fair routing protocol for WSANs. A lightweight and computation-efficient algorithm optimized for providing fairness and a locally acting adaptive overlay network for data transmission are the highlights of SOFROP that have been shown through extensive simulations.
},
}