Fault tolerant energy aware data dissemination protocol in sensor networks

Abstract

In this paper we present a data dissemination protocol for efficiently distributing data through a sensor network in the face of node and link failures. Our work is motivated by the SPIN protocol which uses metadata negotiation to minimize data transmissions. We propose a protocol called Shortest Path Minded SPIN (SPMS) in which every node has a zone defined by its maximum transmission radius. A node which is a data source advertises the availability of data to all the nodes in its zone using a metadata descriptor. Any interested node requests the data and gets sent the data using multi-hop communication via the shortest path. The failure of any node in the path is detected and recovered using backup routes. We build simulation models to compare SPMS against SPIN. Different scenarios including mobility and node failures are simulated. The simulation results show that SPMS reduces the delay over 10 times and consumes 30% less energy in the static failure free scenario. Even with the addition of mobility, SPMS outperforms SPIN by energy gains between 5% and 21%.An analytical model is also constructed to compare the two protocols under a simplified topology.

A fast and reliable protocol for wireless sensor networks in critical conditions monitoring applications

“…Network lifetime is increased since critical sensors (those that are close to the sink) are not overused; however a more complex hardware has to be deployed. Algorithms that deal with node failures include SPIN (SPMS) [14], which uses meta-data exchange prior to exchange of data to decide if a node requires the data. It uses shortest distance multihop routing for the request and data transfers, saving energy and reducing end-to-end delay.…”

Data-Centric Routing in Sensor Networks: Single-hop Broadcast or Multi-hop Unicast?

“…A family of data-centric data dissemination protocols is examined in this paper: (a) The SPIN (Sensor Protocols for Information via Negotiation) protocol family [4] [6] -SPIN-PP, SPIN-EC, SPIN-BC, SPIN-RL; and (b) SPMS (Shortest Path Minded SPIN) [5]. The common idea behind these protocols is to use metadata negotiations or named data before transmitting actual data.…”

Energy-efficient on-demand reprogramming of large-scale sensor networks

“…Protocols such as SPIN [12] and SPMS [13] rely on the advertisement and the request packets being much smaller than the data packets and the redundancy in the network deployments which make several nodes disinterested in any given advertisement. However, in the data dissemination protocols, there is only suppression of the requests and the data sizes are much smaller than the entire binary code images.…”