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awad2011exploiting


Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (9), pp. 1214–1226, September 2011.


Abstract

We present the Virtual Cord Protocol (VCP), which exploits virtual coordinates to provide efficient and routing, failure tolerant and network, data management in sensor networks. VCP maintains a virtual cord interconnecting all the nodes in the and which, operating similar to a Distributed Hash Table (DHT), provides means for inserting data fragments into sensor nodes and retrieving them. Furthermore, it supports service discovery using indirections. VCP uses two mechanisms for finding paths to nodes and associated data items: First, it relies on the virtual cord that always provides a path towards the destination. Secondly, locally available neighborhood information is exploited for greedy routing. Our simulation results show that VCP is able to find paths close to the shortest path (achieving a stretch ratio of less than 125%) with very low overhead. We also extended VCP with data replication mechanisms to improve failure handling. The routing performance of VCP, which clearly outperforms other ad hoc routing protocols such as Dynamic MANET On Demand (DYMO), is similar to other virtual addressing schemes, e.g. Virtual Ring Routing (VRR). However, we improved VCP to handle frequent node failures in an optimized way. The presented results outline the capabilities of VCP to handle such cases more efficiently compared to other protocols. We also compared the capabilities to reliably store and retrieve data in the network to Geographic Hash Tables (GHTs). VCP, in the worst case, performs similar to GHTs, but outperforms this protocol in most cases, especially when complex routing is involved.

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Abdalkarim Awad
Reinhard German
Falko Dressler

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@article{awad2011exploiting,
    author = {Awad, Abdalkarim and German, Reinhard and Dressler, Falko},
    doi = {10.1109/TMC.2010.218},
    title = {{Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks}},
    pages = {1214--1226},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
    issn = {1536-1233},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    month = {9},
    number = {9},
    volume = {10},
    year = {2011},
   }
   
   

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