Interference-aware multipath routing for WSNs: overview and performance evaluation. Issue 1 (15th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Maimour, Moufida
• Is Part Of: Applied computing and informatics. Volume 16:Issue 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 59
• Page End: 80
• Publication Date: 2018-03-15
• Subjects: Multipath Routing -- Interference -- WSN -- Performance Evaluation -- Simulation; Information science -- Periodicals; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Periodicals; 004
• DOI: 10.1016/j.aci.2018.03.002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2210-8327

Abstract

Abstract : Multipath routing holds a great potential to provide sufficient bandwidth to a plethora of applications in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of interference that can significantly affect the expected performances. We focus on the performance evaluation of the iterative paths discovery approach as opposed to the traditional concurrent multipath routing. Five different variants of multipath protocols are simulated and evaluated using different performance metrics. We mainly show that the iterative approach allows better performances when used jointly with an interference-aware metric or when an interference-zone marking strategy is employed. This latter appears to exhibit the best performances in terms of success ratio, achieved throughput, control messages overhead as well as energy consumption.