RODENT: a flexible TOPSIS based routing protocol for multi-technologies devices in wireless sensor networks - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique Access content directly
Journal Articles ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies Year : 2021

RODENT: a flexible TOPSIS based routing protocol for multi-technologies devices in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an efficient tool for many use cases, such as environmental monitoring. However WSN deployment are sometimes limited by the characteristics of the Radio Access Technologies (RAT) they use. To overcome some of these limitations, we propose to leverage the use of Multiple Technologies Network (MTN). What we refer to as MTN is a network composed of nodes able to use several RAT and communicating wirelessly through multi-hop paths. The management of the RAT and routes must be handled by the nodes themselves, in a local and distributed way, with a suited communication protocol stack. Nodes may reach multiple neighbors over multiple RAT. Therefore, each stack's layer has to take the technologies' heterogeneity of the devices into account. In this article, we introduce our custom Routing Over Different Existing Network Technologies protocol (RODENT), designed for MTN. It enables dynamic (re)selection of the best route and RAT based on the data type and requirements that may evolve over time, potentially mixing each technology over a single path. RODENT relies on a multi-criteria route selection performed with a custom lightweight TOPSIS method. To assess RODENT's performances, we implemented a functional prototype on real WSN hardware, Pycom FiPy devices. Unlike related prototypes, ours has the advantage not to rely on specific infrastructure on the operator's side. Results show that RODENT enables energy savings, an increased coverage as well as multiple data requirements support.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
main.pdf (1.64 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)

Dates and versions

hal-03165426 , version 1 (10-03-2021)
hal-03165426 , version 2 (22-03-2021)
hal-03165426 , version 3 (30-03-2021)

Identifiers

  • HAL Id : hal-03165426 , version 2

Cite

Brandon Foubert, Nathalie Mitton. RODENT: a flexible TOPSIS based routing protocol for multi-technologies devices in wireless sensor networks. ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, In press. ⟨hal-03165426v2⟩
366 View
574 Download

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More