Paper Info
Title
Z-Cast: A Multicast Routing Mechanism in ZigBee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Group communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) requires an efficient multicast routing mechanism due to inherent resources and computing constraints of sensor nodes. ZigBee, which is a standard protocol that represents a very prominent technology for WSNs, does not consider multicast routing in its specification. In this paper, a group is defined as a set of nodes that share the same sensory information. The main contributions of this paper are two-folded: First, we propose Z-Cast, an efficient multicast routing mechanism for groups that share the same sensory information in a cluster-tree WSN. Second, we show how to integrate the Z-Cast mechanism in open-ZB which is an open source IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee implementation. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency and backward compatibility of our proposal with the standard specification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICDCSW.2010.52
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient multicast,zigbee cluster-tree wireless sensor,standard protocol,cluster-tree wsn,standard specification,sensory information,multicast routing mechanism,multicast routing,group communication,zigbee implementation,z-cast mechanism,wireless sensor networks,routing protocols,routing,unicast,wireless sensor network
Source-specific multicast,Protocol Independent Multicast,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Xcast,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol,Multicast,NeuRFon,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1545-0678
978-1-4244-7471-4
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olfa Gaddour1715.58
Anis Koubaa260860.30
Omar Cheikhrouhou36611.71
Mohamed Abid4403.38