A new QoS routing algorithm based on self-organizing maps for wireless sensor networks

For the past ten years, many authors have focused their investigations in wireless sensor networks. Different researching issues have been extensively developed: power consumption, MAC protocols, self-organizing network algorithms, data-aggregation schemes, routing protocols, QoS management, etc. Due to the constraints on data processing and power consumption, the use of artificial intelligence has been historically discarded. However, in some special scenarios the features of neural networks are appropriate to develop complex tasks such as path discovery. In this paper, we explore and compare the performance of two very well known routing paradigms, directed diffusion and Energy-Aware Routing, with our routing algorithm, named SIR, which has the novelty of being based on the introduction of neural networks in every sensor node. Extensive simulations over our wireless sensor network simulator, OLIMPO, have been carried out to study the efficiency of the introduction of neural networks. A comparison of the results obtained with every routing protocol is analyzed. This paper attempts to encourage the use of artificial intelligence techniques in wireless sensor nodes.     

A distributed routing algorithm for mobile wireless networks

We present a loop-free, distributed routing protocol for mobile packet radio networks. The protocol is intended for use in networks where the rate of topological change is not so fast as to make flooding the only possible routing method, but not so slow as to make one of the existing protocols for a nearly-static topology applicable. The routing algorithm adapts asynchronously in a distributed fashion to arbitrary changes in topology in the absence of global topological knowledge. The protocol's uniqueness stems from its ability to maintain source-initiated, loop-free multipath routing only to desired destinations with minimal overhead in a randomly varying topology. The protocol's performance, measured in terms of end-to-end packet delay and throughput, is compared with that of pure flooding and an alternative algorithm which is well-suited to the high-rate topological change environment envisioned here. For each protocol, emphasis is placed on examining how these performance measures vary as a function of the rate of topological changes, network topology, and message traffic level. The results indicate the new protocol generally outperforms the alternative protocol at all rates of change for heavy traffic conditions, whereas the opposite is true for light traffic. Both protocols significantly outperform flooding for all rates of change except at ultra-high rates where all algorithms collapse. The network topology, whether dense or sparsely connected, is not seen to be a major factor in the relative performance of the algorithms.The work of A. Ephremides was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants D-CDR-8803012 and EEC94-02384.     

QoS routing in ad hoc wireless networks

The emergence of nomadic applications have generated much interest in wireless network infrastructures that support real-time communications. We propose a bandwidth routing protocol for quality-of-service (QoS) support in a multihop mobile network. The QoS routing feature is important for a mobile network to interconnect wired networks with QoS support (e.g., ATM, Internet, etc.). The QoS routing protocol can also work in a stand-alone multihop mobile network for real-time applications. This QoS routing protocol contains end-to-end bandwidth calculation and bandwidth allocation. Under such a routing protocol, the source (or the ATM gateway) is informed of the bandwidth and QoS available to any destination in the mobile network. This knowledge enables the establishment of QoS connections within the mobile network and the efficient support of real-time applications. In addition, it enables more efficient call admission control. In the case of ATM interconnection, the bandwidth information can be used to carry out intelligent handoff between ATM gateways and/or to extend the ATM virtual circuit (VC) service to the mobile network with possible renegotiation of QoS parameters at the gateway. We examine the system performance in various QoS traffic flows and mobility environments via simulation. Simulation results suggest distinct performance advantages of our protocol that calculates the bandwidth information. It is particularly useful in call admission control. Furthermore, “standby” routing enhances the performance in the mobile environment. Simulation experiments show this improvement     

A novel QoS routing protocol for LEO and MEO satellite networks

The rapid advance of communication and satellite technology pushes broadband satellite networks to carry on multimedia traffic. However, the function of onboard routing cannot be provided in existing satellite networks with inter‐satellite links, and quality of service (QoS) of satellite networks cannot be reliably guaranteed because of great difficulties in processing of long distance‐dependent traffic. In this paper, a two‐layered low‐Earth orbit and medium‐Earth orbit satellite network (LMSN) is presented. A novel hierarchical and distributed QoS routing protocol (HDRP) is investigated, and an adaptive bandwidth‐constrained minimum‐delay path algorithm is developed to calculate routing tables efficiently using the QoS metric information composed of delays and bandwidth. The performance of LMSN and HDRP is also evaluated through simulations and theoretical analysis. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A multicast routing algorithm for LEO satellite IP networks

Satellite networks provide global coverage and support a wide range of services. Since low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites provide short round-trip delays, they are becoming increasingly important for real-time applications such as voice and video traffic. Many applications require a mechanism to deliver information to multiple recipients. A multicast routing algorithm for datagram traffic is introduced for LEO satellite IP networks. The new scheme creates multicast trees by using the datagram routing algorithm. The bandwidth utilization and delay characteristics are assessed through simulations     

一种能耗均衡的无线传感器网络路由算法

为了延长采用电池供电的无线传感器网络的生命周期,提出了一种综合考虑单个节点能耗和节点传输信息至汇集节点所需总能耗的路由算法.该算法首先根据网络中节点到汇集节点从小到大的距离顺序选择待规划节点,然后计算各对应候选节点的评价参数,该参数由单节点能耗和节点传输信息至汇集节点所需总能耗加权得到,最后选择评价参数最小的候选节点作为待规划节点的中继节点.仿真结果表明,该算法的生命周期明显长于LEACH(Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hier-archy)算法.     

A dynamic-clustering reactive routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks

The clustering is a key routing method for large-scale wireless sensor networks, which effective extends the lifetime and the expansibility of network. In this paper, a node model is defined based on the structure and transmission principle of neuron, and a dynamic-clustering reactive routing algorithm is proposed. Once the event emergences, the cluster head is dynamic selected in the incident region according to the residual energy. The data collected by the cluster head is sent back to the Sink along the network backbone. Two kinds of accumulation ways are designed to increase the efficiency of data collection. Meanwhile through the fluctuation of action-threshold, the cluster head can trace the changing speed of incident; the nodes outside the incident region use this fluctuation to send data periodically. Finally, the simulation results verify that the DCRR algorithm extends the network’s lifetime considerably and adapts to the change of network scale. The analysis shows that DCRR has more prominent advantages under low and middle load.

A QoS routing strategy using fuzzy logic for NGEO satellite IP networks

Wireless Networks - We present a fuzzy satellite routing strategy (FSRS) for NGEO satellite IP networks to meet multi-class QoS demands. A set of fuzzy rules is established to map the congestion...     

Multiconstrained QoS multipath routing in wireless sensor networks

Sensor nodes are densely deployed to accomplish various applications because of the inexpensive cost and small size. Depending on different applications, the traffic in the wireless sensor networks may be mixed with time-sensitive packets and reliability-demanding packets. Therefore, QoS routing is an important issue in wireless sensor networks. Our goal is to provide soft-QoS to different packets as path information is not readily available in wireless networks. In this paper, we utilize the multiple paths between the source and sink pairs for QoS provisioning. Unlike E2E QoS schemes, soft-QoS mapped into links on a path is provided based on local link state information. By the estimation and approximation of path quality, traditional NP-complete QoS problem can be transformed to a modest problem. The idea is to formulate the optimization problem as a probabilistic programming, then based on some approximation technique, we convert it into a deterministic linear programming, which is much easier and convenient to solve. More importantly, the resulting solution is also one to the original probabilistic programming. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. This work was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant DBI-0529012, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award under grant ANI-0093241 and the Office of Naval Research under Young Investigator Award N000140210464. Xiaoxia Huang received her BS and MS in the Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000 and 2002, respectively. She is completing her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research interests include mobile computing, QoS and routing in wireless ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks. Yuguang Fang received a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994 and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 1997. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology from July 1998 to May 2000. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in May 2000 as an assistant professor, got an early promotion to an associate professor with tenure in August 2003 and to a full professor in August 2005. He holds a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship from 2006 to 2009. He has published over 200 papers in refereed professional journals and conferences. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002. He has served on several editorial boards of technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ACM Wireless Networks. He have also been activitely participating in professional conference organizations such as serving as The Steering Committee Co-Chair for QShine, the Technical Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005, Technical Program Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom’2004, and a member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE INFOCOM (1998, 2000, 2003–2007).     

A distributed QoS routing based on ant algorithm for LEO satellite network

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites provide short round-trip delays and are becoming in- creasingly important. One of the challenges in LEO satellite networks is the development of specialized and efficient routing algorithms. To satisfy the QoS requirements of multimedia applications, satellite routing protocols should consider handovers and minimize their effect on the active connections. A distributed QoS routing scheme based on heuristic ant algorithm is proposed for satisfying delay bound and avoiding link congestion. Simulation results show that the call blocking probabilities of this al- gorithm are less than that of Shortest Path First (SPF) with different delay bound.     

有/无线ATM网的组播选路算法

本文提出一种组播选路算法,在组播连接路由树的代价函数中计入了移动成员的越区切换发生概率,使为移动成员服务的接入节点（ＡＰ）尽可能成为组播路由树的树叶节点。当移动成员发生越区切换以后,可减去原来为之服务的ＡＰ和相应的树枝通道链路,从而保证了网络资源得以有效地利用。数值模拟分析的结果表明,我们提出的算法达到了这一目的。     

A utility-based distributed maximum lifetime routing algorithm for wireless networks

Energy-efficient routing is a critical problem in multihop wireless networks due to the severe power constraint of wireless nodes. Despite its importance and many research efforts toward it, a distributed routing algorithm that maximizes network lifetime is still missing. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel utility-based nonlinear optimization formulation to the maximum lifetime routing problem. Based on this formulation, a fully distributed localized routing algorithm is further presented, which is proved to converge at the optimal point, where the network lifetime is maximized. Solid theoretical analysis and simulation results are presented to validate the proposed solution.     

A Tabu search based routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks

In this paper, a Tabu search based routing algorithm is proposed to efficiently determine an optimal path from a source to a destination in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). There have been several methods proposed for routing algorithms in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, the Tabu search method is exploited for routing in WSNs from a new point of view. In this algorithm (TSRA), a new move and neighborhood search method is designed to integrate energy consumption and hop counts into routing choice. The proposed algorithm is compared with some of the ant colony optimization based routing algorithms, such as traditional ant colony algorithm, ant colony optimization-based location-aware routing for wireless sensor networks, and energy and path aware ant colony algorithm for routing of wireless sensor networks, in term of routing cost, energy consumption and network lifetime. Simulation results, for various random generated networks, demonstrate that the TSRA, obtains more balanced transmission among the node, reduces the energy consumption and cost of the routing, and extends the network lifetime.     

面向LEO卫星网络的高效路由算法

由于卫星星上处理以及存储能力有限,随着卫星网络的规模越来越庞大,迫切需要一种简单高效的路由算法.为此,提出了一种基于网络拥塞程度感知的路由策略(Network Congestion-Aware Routing Algorithm,NCARA).NCARA路由策略在网络处于非拥塞状态时采用Dijkstra算法寻路,网络拥...     

基于认知的无线传感器网络抗干扰路由算法

针对无线传感器网络受Wi—Fi等异构系统干扰日益严重的问题,在引入基于簇的动态多信道组网策略的基础上,综合考虑频谱受干扰程度、信道切换代价、节点剩余能量等因素,提出了一种认知频谱干扰的能量有效的路由（CSIEE）算法。仿真结果表明,该路由与EEPA,AODV,AODV—EA路由相比,有效地节约了传感器节点能量,延长了网络生命周期。     

仿血管路径的无线传感器网络故障容错路由算法

为提高无线传感器网络故障容错性和传输稳定性,实现网络负载均衡,提出了一种仿血管路径的无线传感器网络故障容错路由算法.研究了人体血管路径特性及属性关联,对网络节点分区域等级标定并以不同概率值进行静态分簇,运用改进的蚁群算法BWAS(最优最差蚂蚁系统)生成节点路径,以路径信息素值作为传输路径的选择概率建立仿血管拓扑结构路由...     

QoS routing based on mobile agent for LEO satellite IP networks

Current quality of service (QoS) routing schemes for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites IP networks either neglect the varying population density or fail to guarantee end-to-end delay. As a remedy, QoS routing protocol based on mobile agent (QoSRP-MA) is proposed. QoSRP-MA is a source-based routing protocol. Once connection requests arrive, QoS mobile agents are dispatched from ingress satellite to explore routes, which migrate using satellite routing tables. Upon arriving in egress satellite, QoS mobile agents migrate back towards ingress satellite to reserve bandwidth. To construct satellite routing tables, load balancing routing algorithm based on mobile agent (LBRA-MA) is presented. In LBRP-MA, at regular intervals mobile agents launched on all satellites migrate autonomously to evaluate path cost and update routing tables. Moreover, path cost between source and destination is evaluated considering satellite geographical position as well as inter-satellite link (ISL) cost. Furthermore, ISL congestion index is considered to update routing table. Through simulations on a Courier-like constellation, it shows that QoSRP-MA can achieve guaranteed end-to-end delay bound with higher throughput, lower connection failing ratio and signaling overhead compared to high performance satellite routing (HPSR) scheme.     

多光纤WDM网中的QoS路由算法

利用区分光业务(DOS)模型可以将WDM光传送网中客户层(如IP)具有不同QoS要求的业务汇聚力较粗粒度的流,直接映射到光信道上,从而使客户层业务的不同QoS要求可以体现在DOS域的边缘光节点处的光路建立请求的不同优先级上。该文首先探讨了如何将多光纤WDM网转化为波长图,从而一次性解决选路和分配波长(RWA)问题,在此基础上,提出两种用于多光纤WDM网的QoS路由算法,对二者进行了比较,并进行了计算机仿真。     

A ring-based multicast routing topology with QoS support in wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networking (WMN) is an emerging technology for future broadband wireless access. The proliferation of the mobile computing devices that are equipped with cameras and ad hoc communication mode creates the possibility of exchanging real-time data between mobile users in wireless mesh networks. In this paper, we argue for a ring-based multicast routing topology with support from infrastructure nodes for group communications in WMNs. We study the performance of multicast communication over a ring routing topology when 802.11 with RTS/CTS scheme is used at the MAC layer to enable reliable multicast services in WMNs. We propose an algorithm to enhance the IP multicast routing on the ring topology. We show that when mesh routers on a ring topology support group communications by employing our proposed algorithms, a significant performance enhancement is realized. We analytically compute the end-to-end delay on a ring multicast routing topology. Our results show that the end-to-end delay is reduced about 33 %, and the capacity of multicast network (i.e., maximum group size that the ring can serve with QoS guarantees) is increased about 50 % as compared to conventional schemes. We also use our analytical results to develop heuristic algorithms for constructing an efficient ring-based multicast routing topology with QoS guarantees. The proposed algorithms take into account all possible traffic interference when constructing the multicast ring topology. Thus, the constructed ring topology provides QoS guarantees for the multicast traffic and minimizes the cost of group communications in WMNs.     

自适应的认知无线Mesh网络QoS约束的路由与频谱分配算法

提出了一种自适应的满足QoS约束的路由与频谱分配(SA2JR)算法,SA2JR的目标是:在满足无线业务QoS约束的情况下,最大化无线业务接受率,让尽可能多的无线业务需求能够被满足.SA2JR包括2个部分,按需的κ-路径路由(κ-Routing)算法,以及QoS驱动的频谱分配(QDSA)算法.κ-Routing负责为每一个需求产生κ条潜在路由路径,QDSA算法自适应地进行频谱分配,目标是从κ-Routing产生的κ条潜在路由路径中找出一条满足QoS约束的可行路由路径.仿真结果表明SA2JR能达到预定目标,获得了较高的无线业务接受率.