Real-World Evaluation of Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled Opportunistic Routing

Zhao, Zhongliang; Braun, Torsten (8 September 2014). Real-World Evaluation of Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled Opportunistic Routing. In: 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN'14). Conference on Local Computer Networks (pp. 124-132). IEEE 10.1109/LCN.2014.6925764

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Energy is of primary concern in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Low power transmission makes the wireless links unreliable, which leads to frequent topology changes. Resulting packet retransmissions aggravate the energy consumption. Beaconless routing approaches, such as opportunistic routing (OR) choose packet forwarders after data transmissions, and are promising to support dynamic features of WSNs. This paper proposes SCAD - Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled beaconless OR for WSNs. SCAD is a cross-layer routing solution and it brings the concept of beaconless OR into WSNs. SCAD selects packet forwarders based on multiple types of network contexts. To achieve a balance between performance and energy efficiency, SCAD adapts duty-cycles of sensors based on real-time traffic loads and energy drain rates. We implemented SCAD in TinyOS running on top of Tmote Sky sensor motes. Real-world evaluations show that SCAD outperforms other protocols in terms of both throughput and network lifetime.

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