Robust and Resilient Data Collection Protocols for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks

Daichi KOMINAMI
Masashi SUGANO
Masayuki MURATA
Takaaki HATAUCHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E95-B    No.9    pp.2740-2750
Publication Date: 2012/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.2740
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Emerging Technologies and Applications for Ad Hoc and Wireless Mesh Networks)
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Keyword: 
robustness,  resilience,  sensor network,  simulation,  

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Summary: 
Robustness is one of the significant properties in wireless sensor networks because sensor nodes and wireless links are subjected to frequent failures. Once these failures occur, system performance falls into critical condition due to increases in traffic and losses of connectivity and reachability. Most of the existing studies on sensor networks, however, do not conduct quantitative evaluation on robustness and do not discuss what brings in robustness. In this paper, we define and evaluate robustness of wireless sensor networks and show how to improve them. By computer simulation, we show that receiver-initiated MAC protocols are more robust than sender-initiated ones and a simple detour-routing algorithm has more than tripled robustness than the simple minimum-hop routing algorithm.