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Authors:
Luis Eduardo Lima
Juliana Garcia Cespedes
Mariá Cristina Vasconcelos Nascimento
Valério Rosset
Keywords: WSAN; Routing; Energy Efficiency; Reliability
Abstract:
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) refer to a class of unattended wireless networks whose goal is to provide communication between distributed applications that perform the monitoring and control of certain characteristics of an environment. Among the vast number of WSANs applications, we focus on those designed to the natural disaster monitoring, such as forest fire control. It is therefore essential that the routing algorithms for these applications provide adequate scalability, reliability and energy efficiency. In addition, considering largescale scenarios and the absence of direct communication between actuators, the message delivery reliability, fundamental for the mutual coordination of actuators, is a requirement not fully supported by the existing protocols. In order to cope with this shortcoming, in this paper we propose a novel BorderOriented-Forward routing protocol (BOFP) for WSANs with support to actuator-sensor-actuator communication. We carried out simulations to attest the BOFP performance according to three metrics: the goodput, the overall end-to-end delivery delay and the energy consumption. The results of the simulations were statistically analyzed and suggested that BOFP satisfied the requirements of large-scale WSANs.
Pages: 12 to 17
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: April 19, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-398-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015