Title: Reconstruction and application of flooding routing algorithm for smart street light over wireless sensor networks

Authors: Zhichao Wang; Liang Tang; Jun Steed Huang; Hongwei Shi; Li Bian

Addresses: Institute of Electronics and Information, Suqian College, Suqian 223800, China ' Institute of Electronics and Information, Suqian College, Suqian 223800, China ' Institute of Electronics and Information, Suqian College, Suqian 223800, China; Carleton University, 1125, Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada ' Institute of Electronics and Information, Suqian College, Suqian 223800, China ' Institute of Electronics and Information, Suqian College, Suqian 223800, China

Abstract: For smart street light wireless sensor networks, there are huge number of redundant packets flooding in the route discovery process, resulting in information explosion and high energy consumption. This paper proposes an improved flooding routing protocol, during the route discovery process, each node could receive signals such as the serial number of packets copies, destination address, node types and so on, the algorithm will judge whether the received signals need to be continue forwarded in a certain forward probability or not. Thus, the total forward times will be reduced and accordingly the information explosion could be prevented and the energy consumption could be reduced without reducing the reliability. Simulation experiments are conducted on MATLAB, and results show that the improved algorithm has much more higher flooding efficiency than the traditional flooding routing algorithm, and a very broad application prospect to balance the efficiency versus the reliability of the whole networks.

Keywords: smart lighting; packets flooding; algorithm efficiency; network reliability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2020.105047

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2020 Vol.13 No.1, pp.9 - 17

Received: 17 May 2018
Accepted: 15 Dec 2018
Published online: 11 Feb 2020 *

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