A Novel Cooperative Communication Protocol for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks

Xuedong Liang; Min Chen; Yang Xiao; Ilangko Balasingham; Victor C.M. Leung

The First International ICST Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructures

Research Article

A Novel Cooperative Communication Protocol for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks

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    author={Xuedong Liang and Min Chen and Yang Xiao and Ilangko Balasingham and Victor C.M. Leung},
    title={A Novel Cooperative Communication Protocol for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks},
    proceedings={The First International ICST Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructures},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PCSI},
    year={2009},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976244}
}

Xuedong Liang
Min Chen
Yang Xiao
Ilangko Balasingham
Victor C.M. Leung
Year: 2009
A Novel Cooperative Communication Protocol for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks
PCSI
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976244

Xuedong Liang^1,2^,*, Min Chen³^,*, Yang Xiao⁴^,*, Ilangko Balasingham^2,5^,*, Victor C.M. Leung⁶^,*

1: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway N-0316
2: The Interventional Center, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway N-0027
3: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4
4: The Interventional Center, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway N-0027 Dept. of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
5: Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway N-7491
6: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University ofBritish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T lZ4

*Contact email: xuedongl@medisin.uio.no, minchen@ece.ubc.ca, yangxiao@ieee.org, ilangkob@medisin.uio.no, vleung@ece.ubc.ca

Abstract

Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in terms of adaptivity, reliability, data throughput and network life time. In this paper, we investigate the use of cooperative communications for quality of service (QoS) provisioning in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, and propose MRL-CC, a Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning based multi-hop mesh Cooperative Communication mechanism for wireless sensor networks. In order to disseminate data reliably in MRL-CC, a multi-hop mesh cooperative structure is first constructed. Then a cooperative mechanism with cooperative partner assignments, and coding and transmission schemes is implemented using a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm. We compare the network performance of MRL-CC with MMCC [1], a Multi-hop Mesh structure based Cooperative Communication scheme, and investigate the impacts of network traffic load, interference and sensor node’s mobility on the network performance. Simulation results show that MRL-CC performs well in terms of a number of QoS metrics, and fits well in large-scale networks and highly dynamic environments.

Published: 2009-05-26
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976244

A Novel Cooperative Communication Protocol for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks

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