Title
NQAR: network quality aware routing in error-prone wireless sensor networks
Abstract
We propose a network quality aware routing (NQAR) mechanism to provide an enabling method of the delay-sensitive data delivery over error-prone wireless sensor networks. Unlike the existing routing methods that select routes with the shortest arrival latency or the minimum hop count, the proposed scheme adaptively selects the route based on the network qualities including link errors and collisions with minimum additional complexity. It is designed to avoid the paths with potential noise and collision that may cause many non-deterministic backoffs and retransmissions. We propose a generic framework to select a minimum cost route that takes the packet loss rate and collision history into account. NQAR uses a data centric approach to estimate a single-hop delay based on processing time, propagation delay, packet loss rate, number of backoffs, and the retransmission timeout between two neighboring nodes. This enables a source node to choose the shortest expected end-to-end delay path to send a delay-sensitive data. The experiment results show that NQAR reduces the end-to-end transfer delay up to approximately 50% in comparison with the latency-based directed diffusion and the hop count-based directed diffusion under the error-prone network environments. Moreover, NQAR shows better performance than those routing methods in terms of jitter, reachability, and network lifetime.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1155/2010/409724
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
end-to-end delay path,network quality,single-hop delay,network quality aware routing,sensor network,network lifetime,error-prone network environment,packet loss rate,error-prone wireless,propagation delay,data centric approach,wireless sensor network
Sensor node,End-to-end delay,Network delay,Propagation delay,Computer science,Packet loss,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wireless sensor network,Geographic routing,Processing delay
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010,
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.55
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaewon Choi19211.74
Baek-Young Choi236759.92
Sejun Song321135.23
Kwang-Hui Lee481.98