Title
A multi-agent framework for packet routing in wireless sensor networks.
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely investigated in recent years. One of the fundamental issues in WSNs is packet routing, because in many application domains, packets have to be routed from source nodes to destination nodes as soon and as energy efficiently as possible. To address this issue, a large number of routing approaches have been proposed. Although every existing routing approach has advantages, they also have some disadvantages. In this paper, a multi-agent framework is proposed that can assist existing routing approaches to improve their routing performance. This framework enables each sensor node to build a cooperative neighbour set based on past routing experience. Such cooperative neighbours, in turn, can help the sensor to effectively relay packets in the future. This framework is independent of existing routing approaches and can be used to assist many existing routing approaches. Simulation results demonstrate the good performance of this framework in terms of four metrics: average delivery latency, successful delivery ratio, number of live nodes and total sensing coverage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/s150510026
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-agent systems,wireless sensor networks,packet routing
Multipath routing,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Policy-based routing,Static routing,Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Engineering,Geographic routing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
5.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.69
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ye Dayong1120.69
Minjie Zhang225530.01
Yun Yang32103150.49