Efficient Flooding Mechanisms with Considering Data Transmission Characteristics of the Wireless Sensor Network


The KIPS Transactions:PartC, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 209-216, Apr. 2009
10.3745/KIPSTC.2009.16.2.209,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In the wireless sensor network, flooding is required for the dissemination of queries and event announcements. The simple flooding causes the implosion and the overlap problems, so the simple flooding may result in the reduced network lifetime. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the flooding overlay structure (FOS) so that the overhead caused by flooding can be reduced. We propose two variants of FOS mechanisms, the centralized FOS (CFOS) and the distributed FOS (DFOS). In CFOS, the sink collects the network topology information and selects forwarding nodes based on that information. On the other hand, DFOS allows each sensor node to decide whether to act as a forwarding node or not based on its local information. For the performance evaluation of our proposed mechanisms, we carry out NS-2 based simulations and compare ours with the simple flooding and the gossiping. The simulation results indicate that the proposed FOS mechanisms outperform the simple flooding in terms of the network lifetime and the gossiping in terms of the data delivery ratio.


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[IEEE Style]
S. H. Ahn, Y. J. Lim, M. H. Kim, "Efficient Flooding Mechanisms with Considering Data Transmission Characteristics of the Wireless Sensor Network," The KIPS Transactions:PartC, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 209-216, 2009. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTC.2009.16.2.209.

[ACM Style]
Sang Hyun Ahn, Yu Jin Lim, and Mahn Hee Kim. 2009. Efficient Flooding Mechanisms with Considering Data Transmission Characteristics of the Wireless Sensor Network. The KIPS Transactions:PartC, 16, 2, (2009), 209-216. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTC.2009.16.2.209.