期刊名称：International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
印刷版ISSN：0975-4679
电子版ISSN：0975-3834
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：4
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Many new routing protocols have been proposed for wireless sensor networks to maximize throughput, minimize delay or improve other QoS metrics in order to solve the problems of resource-constrained sensor nodes in large networks. However, many of them are based on flooding or its variants. Many routing messages are propagated unnecessarily and may cause different interference characteristics during route discovery phase and in the actual application data transmission phase. As a result, incorrect routes may be selected. Epidemic algorithms have been used to limit flooding in the field of wireless sensor networks. Directed diffusion has been commonly used in wireless sensor networks because it is designed to improve energy efficiency and scalability. However, the intrinsic flooding scheme for interest subscriptions prevents it from achieving the maximal potential of these two goals. We propose a routing protocol that uses ID-free epidemic flooding to limit interference in conjunction with metrics for increasing throughput and reducing delay. Simulation results in ns2 show that there is an optimal number of neighbors to achieve the best throughput and delay performance. For a fixed topology of a certain size, there exists an optimal percentage of neighbors that forward the flooding message to achieve the best throughput and delay performance.
