Performance Evaluation of Mobile Adhoc Routing Protocols on Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

Mabrouka Abuhmida, Kapilan Radhakrishnan, Ian Wells

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Abstract

The birth of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) was motivated by military applications such as battlefield up until the industrial and civilian applications started to take advantage of the technology in many areas including environmental monitoring. In this paper, performance evaluation of different Mobile ad-hoc routing protocols implemented in WSN has been carried out for environmental monitoring scenario. When this type of application is considered, longer network life and low latency are the primary factors for successful system operation. The network is assumed to be floating on the surface of a small lake, with one base station connected to a wireless wide area network, receiving the sensor measurements. All other nodes are identical and they each have the same sensing, computation and communication capabilities. The study focused on the impact of rapid mobility caused by the surface movements. The performance metrics used in study are average jitter, average delay and packet Energy consumption in transmission and reception mode. Ultimately AODV has performed better as a MANET routing protocol in a WSN when high mobility and dynamic topologies are introduced. This leads to understand that despite the limitations of WSN, MANET routing protocols can perform yet better than WSN routing protocols in mobile environments.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 17th UKSim-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (UKSim) 25-27 March 2015
EditorsDavid Al-Dabass, Alesandra Orsoni, Richard Cant, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Ismail Saad
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4799-8713-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Sept 2016
Event17th UKSim-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Mar 201527 Mar 2015

Conference

Conference17th UKSim-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation
Abbreviated titleUKSim2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period25/03/1527/03/15

Keywords

  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Mobile ad-hoc Network (MANET)
  • Mobility
  • Routing
  • Environmental Monitoring

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