Multi-path Routing Protocol with Optimum Routes Finding Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Keuma, Tae-Hoon (School of Computer Engineering, Kyungil University) ;
  • Bu, Ki-Dong (School of Computer Engineering, Kyungil University) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Sung (School of Computer Engineering, Kyungil University) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Woon (Dept. of Information Security, Tongmyong University)
  • 발행 : 2008.10.31

초록

Finding an energy efficient route is one of the very important issues in the wireless sensor networks. The route scheme should consider both of the energy level of sensor nodes and the number of hops at the same time. First of all, this paper proposes an optimum routes finding scheme (ORFS), which could be used in the sensor network routing protocols. The scheme uses an optimum value for the path with the considerations of both the minimum energy level of a path and the number of hops at the same time. After that, this paper proposes a routing protocol based on the ORFS for how it could be used for the multipath directed diffusion with data aggregation (MDD-A), to get the better energy efficiency. The analysis result shows that the proposed routing protocol could lengthen the network life cycle about 18.7% compared to the previous MDD-A related protocols.

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