Multipath Grid-Based Enabled Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nasser  Alzeidi; Abderezak  Touzene; Khaled  Day; Bassel  Arafeh

doi:10.4236/wsn.2014.612026

Bassel Arafeh^*, Khaled Day, Abderezak Touzene, Nasser Alzeidi

Abstract: This work proposes an efficient disjoint multipath geographic routing algorithm for dense wireless sensor networks (WSN), called Multipath Grid-based Enabled Geographic Routing (MGEGR). The proposed algorithm relies on the construction of a 2-D logical grid in the geographical region of deployment. The objective of the proposed scheme is to determine optimal or near-optimal (within a defined constant) multiple disjoint paths (multipath) from a source node to the sink, in order to enhance the reliability of the network. The determined multiple disjoint paths would be used by the source node in a round-robin way to balance the traffic across the disjoint paths, and to avoid discovered paths with cell holes. The proposed scheme limits the use of broadcasting to the process of gateway election within each cell, and the process of maintaining the table of neighbors of each gateway. Our simulation results show the effectiveness and scalability of our routing scheme with increased network size compared to on-demand routing protocols.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Clustering Algorithms, Disjoint Multipath Routing, Grid-Based Routing, Geographic Routing

Cite this paper: Arafeh, B. , Day, K. , Touzene, A. and Alzeidi, N. (2014) Multipath Grid-Based Enabled Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Sensor Network, 6, 265-280. doi: 10.4236/wsn.2014.612026.

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