Scalable Routing Algorithms for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn - Large scale wireless networks like ad hoc, sensor, sensor actuator or robot networks
consist of devices which are communicating wireless without using a fixed network
infrastructure. Due to limited transmission range, communication between two nodes
often requires collaborating intermediate nodes in order to route messages along a
path connecting source and destination node. Data communication by message routing
gets a challenging task in large scale ad-hoc networks like sensor networks
consisting of thousands of nodes. Networks with battery operated nodes have only a
limited amount of total energy available. It is thus of great importance that such
routing protocols are operating in an energy efficient manner. Moreover, opposed to
traditional networks, changes in the network topology - resulting form device
mobility or from wireless channel fluctuations - are the rule and not an exceptional case.
This talk will discuss the class of localized routing algorithms which are a significant
paradigm shift form traditional routing mechanisms, those based on global message exchange.
In such algorithms the decision about the next hop forwarding node is based on information
about the current and the nodes in its vicinity only. Maintenance of the routing
infrastructure is just limited on local exchange of information with the immediate
neighborhood. The local exchange of control messages is thus not depending on the total
network size. Moreover, changes in the network topology just require control message exchange
with neighbor nodes in the immediate surrounding of that change. From that perspective, such
network protocols are arbitrary scalable with respect to the network size.