A cross layer opportunistic routing protocol for wireless sensor network : analysis, modelling and quality of service support : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Network Engineering at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
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2013
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A wireless sensor network (WSN) provides a platform for embedded sensing and
ubiquitous computing. For ad hoc WSNs, multi-hop routing has been adopted in order to
save communication power consumption. By acknowledging the lossy characteristics of
radio channels on low-power WSNs, the Opportunistic Routing (OR) protocol provides
an efficient method for exploiting the spatial and temporal characteristics of these wireless
networks by considering multiple forwarding relays for each transmission. The main
contribution of this thesis is to provide analysis and modelling for variants of the OR
protocol for WSNs.
Firstly, based on the basic concepts that underpin OR, we propose a new variant of OR
that can be used in WSNs. It is known that communication in WSN is the most power
consuming operation; hence, we propose a variant of OR that specifically reduces the total
number of transmissions required during the coordination step used in OR. We investigate
the effectiveness of this approach and compare it with OR that adopts existing and
common candidate coordination schemes. In addition, we also propose a retransmission
scheme based on provisional reliability constraints for local loss recovery that can be used
in this new variant of OR.
Secondly, we propose a comprehensive new analytical framework that is based on Markov
Chain and Queueing theories that takes into account the key component strategies of OR
(prioritization, selection and coordination) as well as the communication components of
WSN. The proposed framework can be used to model the end-to-end reliability and delay
performances of WSNs using OR.
Thirdly, taking into account the potential deficiencies of OR due to its static coordination
scheme, we introduce a variant of OR that is aware of the online quality of its selected
forwarding relays that we have named as the Adaptive Coordination Opportunistic
Routing (ACOR) protocol. We propose a new local metric to be known as the
Opportunistic Quality Score for ACOR to improve the performance of WSNs and, in
particular, to support Quality of Service delivery of messages in these networks. In
addition, we provide an analytical framework for ACOR that incorporates the adaptive
coordination scheme that has been developed.
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Routing protocols (Computer network protocols), Opportunistic routing protocol, Wireless sensor networks, Design and construction