Optimal placement of relay nodes over limited positions in wireless sensor networks

This paper tackles the challenge of optimally placing relay nodes (RNs) in wireless sensor networks given a limited set of positions. The proposed solution consists of: 1) the usage of a realistic physical layer model based on a Rayleigh block-fading channel; 2) the calculation of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) considering the path loss, fast fading, and interference; and 3) the usage of a weighted communication graph drawn based on outage probabilities determined from the calculated SINR for every communication link. Overall, the proposed solution aims for minimizing the outage probabilities when constructing the routing tree, by adding a minimum number of RNs that guarantee connectivity. In comparison to the state-of-the art solutions, the conducted simulations reveal that the proposed solution exhibits highly encouraging results at a reasonable cost in terms of the number of added RNs. The gain is proved high in terms of extending the network lifetime, reducing the end-to-end- delay, and increasing the goodput

Minimizing End-to-End Delay and Maximizing Reliability using Multilayer Neural Network-based Hamming Back Propagation for Efficient Communication in WSN

Wireless sensor network (WSN) comprises number of spatially distributed sensor nodes for monitoring the physical environment conditions and arranging the gathered data at central location. WSN gained large attention in medical field, industry, military, etc. However, congestion control mechanism for communication between sensor nodes failed to consider the end-to-end delay features. In addition, it failed to handle reliability and not achieved the data concurrency. In order to address the above mentioned problems, Multilayer Neural Network-based Hamming Back Propagation (MNN-HBP) technique is introduced for efficient communication in WSN. In MNN-HBP technique, Amorphous View Point Algorithm is introduced for sensor node initialization for efficient communication in WSN. Amorphous View Point Algorithm used time of arrival to measure the time distance between the sender node and receiver node. After that Hamming Back Propagation Algorithm is used to identify the current location of the sensor nodes for minimizing the end-to end delay and improving the reliability. Each sensor node compares their distance with the neighbouring sensor nodes distance to identify the associated error. When the distance is higher, the associated error is higher and propagates error back to other sensor nodes in the previous layers. The process gets repeated until the communication established between source sensor and lower associated error nodes. By this way, efficient communication is carried out with higher reliability and minimum end-to end delay. Extensive simulation are conducted to illustrate the efficiency of proposed technique as well as the impacts of network parameters on end-to-end delay, reliability and data packets successful rate with respect to data packet size and number of data packets

From MANET to people-centric networking: Milestones and open research challenges

In this paper, we discuss the state of the art of (mobile) multi-hop ad hoc networking with the aim to present the current status of the research activities and identify the consolidated research areas, with limited research opportunities, and the hot and emerging research areas for which further research is required. We start by briefly discussing the MANET paradigm, and why the research on MANET protocols is now a cold research topic. Then we analyze the active research areas. Specifically, after discussing the wireless-network technologies, we analyze four successful ad hoc networking paradigms, mesh networks, opportunistic networks, vehicular networks, and sensor networks that emerged from the MANET world. We also present an emerging research direction in the multi-hop ad hoc networking field: people centric networking, triggered by the increasing penetration of the smartphones in everyday life, which is generating a people-centric revolution in computing and communications