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Cooperative contention-based forwarding for wireless sensor networks

  • Long Cheng*
  • , Jiannong Cao
  • , Canfeng Chen
  • , Hongyang Chen
  • , Jian Ma
  • , Joanna Izabela Siebert
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Nokia
  • The University of Tokyo

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Abstract

Cooperative forwarding has been considered as an effective strategy for improving the geographic routing performancein wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, we observe that existing works do not fully utilize the forwarding opportunities provided by available neighboring nodes. In this paper, we redesign the cooperative forwarding process and present a novel cooperative contention-based forwarding (CCBF) protocol for WSNs. CCBF extends the scope of cooperation and attains the full potential of cooperative forwarding at the expense of sending one additional control message on demand. We conduct extensive simulations to study the performance of the proposed CCBF compared with existing protocols. Simulation results demonstrate that CCBF decreases the end-to-end hop counts, hence, further improves the end-to-end energy efficiency and latency. Remarkably, it provides up to 50% improvement for the packet loss ratio when the retransmission mechanism is not adopted.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIWCMC 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Pages1136-1140
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2010 - Caen, France
Duration: 28 Jun 20102 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameIWCMC 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

Conference

Conference6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2010
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityCaen
Period28/06/102/07/10

Keywords

  • Contention-based forwarding
  • Cooperative geographic routing
  • Wireless sensor networks

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