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International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

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UCOR: An Unequally Clustering-Based Hierarchical Opportunistic Routing Protocol for WSNs

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Recently, large amounts of researches have demonstrated that dynamic changes of topological structure as well as unbalance of data traffic/energy consumption in wireless sensor networks have made routing protocol expansibility challenging work. According to the phenomenon that large-scale wireless sensor network will shorten longevity due to funneling effect in energy consumption; we proposed Unequally Clustering-based Hierarchical Opportunistic Routing (UCOR) protocol to reduce redundant network traffic. The protocol can further increase packets delivery ratio, decrease network delay and achieve more balanced and lower energy consumption. Experiment results show that UCOR protocol prolongs network longevity by about 20% to support for larger scale network, compared with HEED, EEUC, etc.

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  1. Computer School, Wuhan University, China

    Ziwei Liu, Chuanbo Wei, Yang Ma, Xiaoguang Niu & Lina Wang

  2. Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, China

    Ziwei Liu & Hui Li

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 317 Davis Hall, 14260, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Kui Ren

  2. School of Computer Science, McGill University,, 3480 University Street, Room 318, H3A 0E9, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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  3. Research School of Computer Science, Australia National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia

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  4. College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, No.109, Deya Road, 410073, Changsha, China

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  5. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, AC1-Y6313, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

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  6. School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, STC West Campus, P.O.Box 4, 230027, Hefei, Anhui, China

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Liu, Z., Wei, C., Ma, Y., Li, H., Niu, X., Wang, L. (2013). UCOR: An Unequally Clustering-Based Hierarchical Opportunistic Routing Protocol for WSNs. In: Ren, K., Liu, X., Liang, W., Xu, M., Jia, X., Xing, K. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39701-1_15

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