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Combined Coverage Area Reporting and Geographical Routing in Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for Cooperating with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In wireless sensor network (WSN) applications with multiple gateways, it is key to route location dependent subscriptions efficiently at two levels in the system. At the gateway level, data sinks must not waste the energy of the WSN by injecting subscriptions that are not relevant for the nodes in their coverage area and at WSN level, energy-efficient delivery of subscriptions to target areas is required. In this paper, we propose a mechanism in which (1) the WSN provides an accurate and up-to-date coverage area description to gateways and (2) the wireless sensor network re-uses the collected coverage area information to enable efficient geographical routing of location dependent subscriptions and other messages. The latter has a focus on routing of messages injected from sink nodes to nodes in the region of interest. Our proposed mechanisms are evaluated in simulation
Void Traversal for Guaranteed Delivery in Geometric Routing
Geometric routing algorithms like GFG (GPSR) are lightweight, scalable
algorithms that can be used to route in resource-constrained ad hoc wireless
networks. However, such algorithms run on planar graphs only. To efficiently
construct a planar graph, they require a unit-disk graph. To make the topology
unit-disk, the maximum link length in the network has to be selected
conservatively. In practical setting this leads to the designs where the node
density is rather high. Moreover, the network diameter of a planar subgraph is
greater than the original graph, which leads to longer routes. To remedy this
problem, we propose a void traversal algorithm that works on arbitrary
geometric graphs. We describe how to use this algorithm for geometric routing
with guaranteed delivery and compare its performance with GFG
On Energy Efficient Hierarchical Cross-Layer Design: Joint Power Control and Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
In this paper, a hierarchical cross-layer design approach is proposed to
increase energy efficiency in ad hoc networks through joint adaptation of
nodes' transmitting powers and route selection. The design maintains the
advantages of the classic OSI model, while accounting for the cross-coupling
between layers, through information sharing. The proposed joint power control
and routing algorithm is shown to increase significantly the overall energy
efficiency of the network, at the expense of a moderate increase in complexity.
Performance enhancement of the joint design using multiuser detection is also
investigated, and it is shown that the use of multiuser detection can increase
the capacity of the ad hoc network significantly for a given level of energy
consumption.Comment: To appear in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking, Special Issue on Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network
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