Location-Based Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Network

Routing algorithms based on geographical location is an important research subject in the Wireless Sensor Network(WSN).They use location information to guide routing discovery and maintenance as well as packet forwarding,thus enabling the best routing to be selected,reducing energy consumption and optimizing the whole network.Through three aspects involving the flooding restriction scheme,the virtual area partition scheme and the best routing choice scheme,the importance of location information is seen in the routing algorithm.

Layered heuristic algorithm for multiple restriction routes

A layered algorithm by bidirectional searching is proposed in this paper to solve the problem that it is difficult and time consuming to reach an optimal solution of the route search with multiple parameter restrictions for good quality of service. Firstly, a set of reachable paths to each intermediate node from the source node and the sink node based on adjacent matrix transformation are calculated respectively. Then a temporal optimal path is selected by adopting the proposed heuristic method according to a non-linear cost function. When the total number of the accumulated nodes by bidirectional searching reaches n-2, the paths from two directions to an intermediate node should be combined and several paths via different nodes from the source node to the sink node can be obtained, then an optimal path in the whole set of paths can be taken as the output route. Some simulation examples are included to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method. In addition, the proposed algorithm can be implemented with parallel computation and thus, the new algorithm has better performance in time complexity than other algorithms. Mathematical analysis indicates that the maximum complexity in time, based on parallel computation, is the same as the polynomial complexity of O(kn2-3kn+k), and some simulation results are shown to support this analysis.

Context-Aware Adaptive Routing for Opportunistic Network

Opportunistic networking-forwarding messages in a disconnected mobile ad hoc network via any encountered nodes offers a new mechanism for exploiting the mobile devices that many users already carry. However, forwarding messages in such a network is trapped by many particular challenges, and some protocols have contributed to solve them partly. In this paper, we propose a Context-Aware Adaptive opportunistic Routing algorithm（CAAR）. The algorithm firstly predicts the approximate location and orientation of the destination node by using its movement key positions and historical communication records, and then calculates the best neighbor for the next hop by using location and velocity of neighbors. In the unpredictable cases, forwarding messages will be delivered to the more capable forwarding nodes or wait for another transmission while the capable node does not exist in the neighborhood. The proposed algorithm takes the movement pattern into consideration and can adapt different network topologies and movements. The experiment results show that the proposed routing algorithm outperforms the epidemic forwarding（EF） and the prophet forwarding（PF） in packet delivery ratio while ensuring low bandwidth overhead.