期刊名称：International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
印刷版ISSN：1550-1329
电子版ISSN：1550-1477
出版年度：2014
卷号：2014
DOI：10.1155/2014/212384
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：Wireless sensor networks have been widely studied for decades. There are many research areas that have been explored such as service availability and energy efficiency. Load balancing is one of the key techniques which can be used to solve the tradeoff between the both sides. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time load balancing technique which does not require the knowledge of static traffic demands and is based on control theory. We first formulate the packet forwarding problem into a classic control model and then derive the controller model. Then, we propose an algorithm to implement the controller and perform the simulation. The simulation results show that, our algorithm can balance the network traffic in real time and decreases maximum link utilization (MLU) sharply. Our algorithm reduces MLU by 78.4% compared to the shortest path first (SPF) routing and by 53.8% compared to another packet scheduling algorithm which was proposed in a previous work.
