Cross-Layer Support for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2009, Article ID 134165, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2009/134165 Research Article Cross-Layer Support for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks N. Chilamkurti,1 S. Zeadally,2 A. Vasilakos,3 and V. Sharma1 1 Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3086, Australia 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008, USA 3 Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechniou 9, Athens 15780, Greece Correspondence should be addressed to N. Chilamkurti, n.chilamkurti@.au Received 29 September 2008; Revised 10 January 2009; Accepted 18 February 2009 Recommended by Tommaso Melodia The Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) algorithm computes a new route when packet loss occurs. DSR does not have an in-built mechanism to determine whether the packet loss was the result of congestion or node failure causing DSR to compute a new route. This leads to inefficient energy utilization when DSR is used in wireless sensor networks. In this work, we exploit cross-layer optimization techniques that extend DSR to improve its routing energy efficiency by minimizing the frequency of recomputed routes. Our proposed approach enables DSR to initiate a route discovery only when link failure occurs. We conducted extensive simulations to evaluate the performance of our proposed cross-layer DSR routing protocol. The simulation results obtained with our extended DSR routing protocol show that the frequency with which new routes are recomputed is 50% lower compared with the traditional DSR protocol. This improvement is attributed t