2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

A novel routing protocol for ad hoc sensor networks using multiple disjoint paths

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589706,
        author={ Xun ZHOU  and Yu LU and Bin XI},
        title={A novel routing protocol for ad hoc sensor networks using multiple disjoint paths},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2006},
        month={2},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589706}
    }
    
  • Xun ZHOU
    Yu LU
    Bin XI
    Year: 2006
    A novel routing protocol for ad hoc sensor networks using multiple disjoint paths
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589706
Xun ZHOU 1,*, Yu LU1, Bin XI1
  • 1: Computer Science and Communication Engineering,Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 610031
*Contact email: Zcm-z@sohu.com

Abstract

Routing in ad hoc sensor networks is a complicated task because of many reasons. For traffic engineering, multipath capabilities are important. This paper, a source routing based multi-path OLSR (SR-MPOLSR) protocol is proposed. In this protocol, MPRs (multi-point relays) are used to obtain the network topology effectively and multiple Dijkstra algorithms are used to calculate multiple routes and to allocate the loads in a weighted round-robin fashion. Data transmission at the source is carried out through predetermined multiple paths (hence source routing). Our experiments have shown that SR-MPOLSR can, to some extent, increase the utility of network resources and network throughput, improve robustness and reliability of the transmission service, and reduce the average transmission delay