Opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

Date

2016

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Abstract

Recent advances in environmental sources harvesting technologies is a promising solution to provide sustainable energy sources for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Renewable energy sources such as solar, thermal and electromagnetic waves constitute viable alternatives to maximize the network lifetime. Therefore, networking software awareness and adaptability to energy availability conditions should translate into innovative supporting features for data gathering, aggregation, routing and dissemination. Thus, it is paramount to develop robust energy harvesting-aware networking platforms that support the above services and guarantee low energy consumption and data integrity in a noisy, constrained environment. In this paper, we present an opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN) based on cross-layer constructs that allows across the layers synchronization and coordination between the routing protocol and the application layer services. The OMNET++ based extensive simulation of this protocol showed promising results in terms of meeting application requirements of handling urgent traffic and delay tolerant traffic seamlessly and ensuring energy usage efficiency. © 2016 IEEE.

Description

This conference paper is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this conference paper is published in 2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (2016), available online at: https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2016.7792463.

Keywords

Electromagnetic waves, Energy efficiency, Energy harvesting, Energy utilization, Environmental technology, Internet protocols, Low power electronics, Network routing, Power management (telecommunication), Renewable energy resources, Routing protocols, Application requirements, Cross-layer design, Data aggregation, Data dissemination protocols, Low energy consumption, Opportunistic routing, Renewable energy source, Sustainable energy sources, Wireless sensor networks (WSN)

Citation

Bouachir, O., Ben Mnaouer, A., Touati, F., & Crescini, D. (2016). Opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks. In 2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2016.7792463

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