Paper Info
Title
A reliable energy-balancing multi-group (REM) routing protocol for firefighter communication networks.
Abstract
In a fire rescue operation, a fast, reliable, and robust communication system is needed to quickly take control of the emergent situation. One of the most important issues in firefighter communication networks (FCNs) is the design of a specialized routing protocol that caters to the specific needs of the fire rescue application. This paper proposes a reliable, energy-balancing, multi-group (REM) routing protocol for an FCN. Since firefighters work in groups, a cluster-based hierarchical approach was adopted. REM is intended to achieve reliability and energy balancing in data communication by incorporating metric-based cluster head (CH) selection, CH rotation among cluster members, and a routing algorithm. Within a cluster, the node with highest metric value based on residual energy and number of connections is chosen as the CH. The CH’s responsibilities are rotated periodically among the cluster members. REM chooses nodes with a higher metric based on residual energy, number of connections, and number of hops to the base station (BS) as the next hop for forwarding data to the BS. This helps to achieve reliability, less delay, and energy balancing when compared with other routing schemes, as evident from the simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1186/1687-1499-2014-66
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Firefighter communication network, Energy-balancing, Multi-group
Base station,Telecommunications network,Residual energy,Computer science,Computer network,Communications system,Energy balancing,Hop (networking),Routing algorithm,Routing protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2014
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahin K. Atiq152.88
Kamran Manzoor2242.86
Soomi Kim310.40
Najam Ul Hasan413212.86
Hyung Joo Kim5362.84