Open AccessAnalyzing the Performance of Data Dissemination Algorithms to Application Requirements in Wireless Sensor Network
Author(s) -
Sukant Kishoro Bisoyi,
Mohit Ranjan Panda,
Sangeeta Mishra
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of smart sensors and ad hoc networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-9738
DOI - 10.47893/ijssan.2011.1038
Subject(s) - computer science , wireless sensor network , dissemination , computer network , flooding (psychology) , key distribution in wireless sensor networks , exploit , routing protocol , distributed computing , node (physics) , wireless , wireless network , routing (electronic design automation) , telecommunications , engineering , psychology , computer security , structural engineering , psychotherapist
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of thousands of tiny sensor nodes having the capability of wireless communication, limited computation and sensing. Many data dissemination protocols have been proposed for multi-hop communication in sensor networks, each evaluated in some scenario. Many protocols are designed to exploit application requirements, then no one protocol can be optimized for all applications. Directed diffusion is a prominent example of data-centric routing in sensor networks, since it is based on application layer data and purely local interactions. However; its functioning relies heavily on expensive operations, like network-wide flooding. The purpose of this paper is to explore different directed diffusion protocols and their performance as the number of sinks and sources increases, the traffic rate and node placement varies, and with and without geographic proximity in node placement. We present the simulation-based performance evaluation using NS2 and tuning of data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. Hope our result would be useful to match dissemination algorithms toapplication performance requirements.