An Efficient and Reliable Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network

In wireless sensor networks (WSN), flooding increases the reliability in terms of successful transmission of a packet with higher overhead. The flooding consumes the resources of the network quickly, especially in sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and vehicular ad-hoc networks in terms of the...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-12, Vol.21 (24), p.8355
Main Authors: Khan, Faheem, Ahmad, Shabir, Gürüler, Hüseyin, Cetin, Gurcan, Whangbo, Taegkeun, Kim, Cheong-Ghil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication
Control algorithms
Data transmission
Efficiency
Energy consumption
Flooding
Floods
Mobile ad hoc networks
Multicasting
Network reliability
ns-2
sensor networks
Sensors
unicasting
Wireless networks
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:In wireless sensor networks (WSN), flooding increases the reliability in terms of successful transmission of a packet with higher overhead. The flooding consumes the resources of the network quickly, especially in sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and vehicular ad-hoc networks in terms of the lifetime of the node, lifetime of the network, and battery lifetime, etc. This paper aims to develop an efficient and reliable protocol by using multicasting and unicasting to overcome the issue of higher overhead due to flooding. Unicasting is used when the desired destination is at a minimum distance to avoid an extra overhead and increases the efficiency of the network in terms of overhead and energy because unicasting is favorable where the distance is minimum. Similarly, multicasting is used when the desired destination is at maximum distance and increases the network's reliability in terms of throughput. The results are implemented in the Department of Computer Science, Bacha Khan University Charsadda (BKUC), Pakistan, as well as in the Network Simulator-2 (NS-2). The results are compared with benchmark schemes such as PUMA and ERASCA, and based on the results, the performance of the proposed approach is improved in terms of overhead, throughput, and packet delivery fraction by avoiding flooding.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s21248355