A new paradigm for multi-path routing protocol for data delivery in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

There are mainly two techniques in routing protocols for wireless sensor networks, single-path, and multi-path routing. Single path routing suffers from many drawbacks and limitations facing the real-time constraints and fault-tolerant applications, especially regarding time delivery of sensed data (warnings), like road safety applications, for example. Therefore, we proposed a new multi-path routing protocol based on spanning trees and a new message routing paradigm that makes single and multi-path routing easy. Simulation results show that the protocol can develop a basic infrastructure for the deliverance of timely warning data and provides fault tolerance by constructing shortest disjoint-nodes paths.

Keywords:

• Wireless sensor networks
• routing protocols
• multi-path routing protocols
• spanning trees

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Notes on contributors

Lakhdar Kanouni

Lakhdar Kanouni is currently a PhD Student at the university of Béjaia, Algeria. He works in the area of routing and communication optimization in Hybrid Sensor and Vehicular Networks.

Fouzi Semchedine

Fouzi Semchedine is currently a Full Professor at the University of Sétif, Algeria. He works in the area of routing, security and quality of service aspects in wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks and hybrid sensor and vehicular networks. He interests also to the localization problem and the compression of data in wireless networks.