3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

Energy-balancing multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1185373.1185401,
        author={Nidal  Nasser and Yunfeng Chen},
        title={Energy-balancing multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2006},
        month={8},
        keywords={wireless sensor networks multipath routing protocol weighted graph.},
        doi={10.1145/1185373.1185401}
    }
    
  • Nidal Nasser
    Yunfeng Chen
    Year: 2006
    Energy-balancing multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
    QSHINE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1185373.1185401
Nidal Nasser1,*, Yunfeng Chen1,*
  • 1: Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada
*Contact email: yunfeng@uoguelph.ca, nnasser@uoguelph.ca

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of wireless sensor nodes forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. In such an environment, due to the limited range of each node's wireless transmissions, it may be necessary for one sensor node to ask for the aid of other sensor nodes in forwarding a packet to its destination, usually the base station. One big issue when designing wireless sensor network is the routing protocol to make the best use of the severe resource constraints presented by WSN, especially the energy limitation. In this paper, we propose a new scheme called EBMR: Energy-Balancing Multipath Routing Protocol that uses multipath alternately to prolong the lifetime of the network.