Abstract
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), congestion will cause packet loss which in turn wastes energy and reduces the lifetime of WSNs, Successful event detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) requires reliability and timeliness. When an event occurs, the base station (BS) is particularly interested about reliable and timely collection of data sent by the nodes close to the event, and the data sent by other nodes have little importance. Data generated in wireless sensor networks may not all be alike: some data may be more important than others and hence may have different delivery requirements. In this paper, we address differentiated data delivery in the presence of congestion in wireless sensor networks. We propose a class of algorithms that enforce differentiated routing based on the congested areas of a network and data priority. The basic protocol, called Congestion-Aware Routing (CAR), discovers the congested zone of the network that exists between high- priority data sources and the data sink and, using simple forwarding rules, dedicates this portion of the network to forwarding primarily high-priority traffic.
Keywords
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Yin, X., Zhou, X., Huang, R.: A Fairness-Aware Congestion Control Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (November 2009)
Sheu, J.-P., Hu, W.-K.: Hybrid Congestion Control Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: IIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference(VTC 2008 – Spring) (2008)
Li, Z., Liu, P.X.: Priority-based Congestion Control in Multi-path and Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics, ROBIO 2007 (2007)
Bhuiyan, M.M., Gondal, I., Kamruzzaman, J.: CAM - Congestion Avoidance and Mitigation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010 – Spring) (May 2010)
Tao, L., Yuecoda, F.: Enhanced Congestion Detection and Avoidance for Multiple Class of Traffic in Sensor Networks. In: 15th IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Communications – APCC (October 2009)
Ee, C.T., Bajcsy, R.: Congestion Control and Fairness for Many-to-One Routing in Sensor Networks. In: Proc. Second ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004), pp. 148–161 (2004)
Felemban, E., Lee, C.-G., Ekici, E.: MMSPEED: Multipath Multi-SPEED Protocol for QoS Guarantee of Reliability and Timeliness in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing 6, 738–754 (2006)
He, T., Stankovic, J.A., Lu, C., Abdelzaher, T.: Speed: A Stateless Protocol for Real-Time Communication in Sensor Networks. In: Proc. 23rd IEEE Int’l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS (2003)
Hill, J., Szewczyk, R., Woo, A., Hollar, S., Culler, D., Pister, K.: System Architecture Directions for Network Sensors. In: Proc. Ninth Int’l Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2000) (November 2000)
Hull, B., Jamieson, K., Balakrishnan, H.: Mitigating Congestion in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Proc. Second ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys (2004)
Madden, S., Franklin, M., Hellerstein, J., Hong, W.: Tag: A Tiny Aggregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks. In: Proc. Fifth Symp. Operating System Design and Implementation, OSDI (2002)
Intanagonwiwat, C., Govindan, R., Estrin, D.: Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks. In: Proc. ACM MobiCom 2000 (August 2000)
Johnson, D.B., Maltz, D.A.: Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, pp. 153–181. Kluwer Academic Publishers (February 1996)
Karp, B., Kung, H.: GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks. In: Proc. ACM MobiCom (2000)
Lu, C., Blum, B., Abdelzaher, T., Stankovic, J., He, T.: RAP: A Real-Time Communication Architecture for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Proc. Eighth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symp (RTAS 2002), pp. 55–66 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Barath, S.R., Vijila, C.K.S., Prakash, A.J. (2011). Mitigating Congestion and Improving the Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Kim, Th., Adeli, H., Ramos, C., Kang, BH. (eds) Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. SIP 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 260. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27183-0_36
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27183-0_36
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-27182-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-27183-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)