SCAD: Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled Beaconless Opportunistic Routing for WSNs

Zhao, Zhongliang; Braun, Torsten (August 2015). SCAD: Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled Beaconless Opportunistic Routing for WSNs. In: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (pp. 2038-2043). IEEE 10.1109/PIMRC.2015.7343633

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Low quality of wireless links leads to perpetual transmission failures in lossy wireless environments. To mitigate this problem, opportunistic routing (OR) has been proposed to improve the throughput of wireless multihop ad-hoc networks by taking advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels. However, OR can not be directly applied to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) due to some intrinsic design features of WSNs. In this paper, we present a new OR solution for WSNs with suitable adaptations to their characteristics. Our protocol, called SCAD-Sensor Context-aware Adaptive Duty-cycled beaconless opportunistic routing protocol is a cross-layer routing approach and it selects packet forwarders based on multiple sensor context information. To reach a balance between performance
and energy-efficiency, SCAD adapts the duty-cycles of sensors according to real-time traffic loads and energy drain rates. We compare SCAD against other protocols through extensive simulations. Evaluation results show that SCAD outperforms other protocols in highly dynamic scenarios.

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