Chain Routing for Convergecast Small Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have many applications involving autonomous sensors transmitting their data to a sink placed in the network. A protocol by name Chain Routing for Convergecast Small Scale (CRCSS) Wireless sensor networks is proposed in this paper. The set of sensor nodes in the network send the data periodically to the sink located in the area of interest. The nodes who cannot reach sink in one hop choose one of the neighbours for forwarding the data to the sink by forming a chain of links. The selection of forwarding node and the waiting period before forwarding plays an important role in the protocol. The proposed CRCSS protocol exhibits improvement in energy spent per packet and latency per packet for a wireless sensor network as compared to ConverSS protocol for small scale wireless sensor networks. In CRCSS protocol energy spent per packet is independent of the network radius

Optimal Convergecast Scheduling Limits for Clustered Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

Increased mobility coupled with a possible reduction of cabling costs and deployment time makes wireless communication an attractive alternative for the industrial process monitoring and control. The major obstacles toward the utilization of wireless industrial networks are predominantly the timeliness and reliability requirements. In this paper, orienting to clustered industrial wireless sensor networks, we analyze the performance bounds of the convergecast scheduling, which is a typical many-to-one communication in wireless industrial networks. The analysis aims to the cluster-line and cluster-tree topologies. Each kind is future divided into three scenarios according to an application parameter, named data update rate. Firstly, we establish the lower bounds on the number of timeslots to finish the intracluster and the intercluster convergecast transmissions. Secondly, we establish the lower bounds on the number of channels based on the lower bounds on the number of timeslots and maximum available channels in a multichannel scenario. Lastly, we carry out the extensive analysis-taking packet retransmissions into consideration so as to meet the reliability requirement. Experiment results validate the correctness and tightness of our theory analysis