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RTXP : A Localized Real-Time Mac-Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Protocols developed during the last years for Wireless\hspace{2pt} Sensor Networks (WSNs) are mainly focused on energy efficiency and autonomous mechanisms (e.g. self-organization, self-configuration, etc). Nevertheless, with new WSN applications, appear new QoS requirements such as time constraints. Real-time applications require the packets to be delivered before a known time bound which depends on the application requirements. We particularly focus on applications which consist in alarms sent to the sink node. We propose Real-Time X-layer Protocol (RTXP), a real-time communication protocol. To the best of our knowledge, RTXP is the first MAC and routing real-time communication protocol that is not centralized, but instead relies only on local information. The solution is cross-layer (X-layer) because it allows to control the delays due to MAC and Routing layers interactions. RTXP uses a suited hop-count-based Virtual Coordinate System which allows deterministic medium access and forwarder selection. In this paper we describe the protocol mechanisms. We give theoretical bound on the end-to-end delay and the capacity of the protocol. Intensive simulation results confirm the theoretical predictions and allow to compare with a real-time centralized solution. RTXP is also simulated under harsh radio channel, in this case the radio link introduces probabilistic behavior. Nevertheless, we show that RTXP it performs better than a non-deterministic solution. It thus advocates for the usefulness of designing real-time (deterministic) protocols even for highly unreliable networks such as WSNs.
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Dates et versions

hal-00702302 , version 1 (29-05-2012)
hal-00702302 , version 2 (13-03-2013)

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Alexandre Mouradian, Isabelle Augé-Blum, Fabrice Valois. RTXP : A Localized Real-Time Mac-Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. [Research Report] RR-7978, INRIA. 2012. ⟨hal-00702302v2⟩
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