REAP: Ring band-based Energy Adaptive Protocol for
Information Dissemination and Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks
Guanfeng Li, Taieb Znati and
Anandha Gopalan
Abstract:
The design issues related to routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are
inherently different from those encountered in traditional mobile ad-hoc
networks. Routing protocols for ad-hoc networks usually impose prohibitive
demands on scares resources of a sensor node such as memory, bandwidth and
energy; therefore, they are not suitable for WSNs. In this paper, we present
a novel, energy adaptive data forwarding protocol, refered to as Ring
band-based Energy Adaptive Protocol (REAP), in which nodes self-organize into
virtual ring bands centered at the Base Station (BS). Packets are automatically
delivered to the BS along a path with decereasing ring band number.
Furthermore, the proposed probabilistic forwarding mechanism also balances
the workload among neighboring nodes within the same ring band. Simulation
study showed REAP exhibits good performance in various network settings
even when nodes are in rapid motion.