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Multipath Extension of the ZigBee Tree Routing in Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks

Multipath Extension of the ZigBee Tree Routing in Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks

Zahia Bidai, Moufida Maimour, Hafid Haffaf
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1937-9412|EISSN: 1937-9404|EISBN13: 9781466613508|DOI: 10.4018/jmcmc.2012040103
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Bidai, Zahia, et al. "Multipath Extension of the ZigBee Tree Routing in Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks." IJMCMC vol.4, no.2 2012: pp.30-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/jmcmc.2012040103

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Bidai, Z., Maimour, M., & Haffaf, H. (2012). Multipath Extension of the ZigBee Tree Routing in Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), 4(2), 30-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/jmcmc.2012040103

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Bidai, Zahia, Moufida Maimour, and Hafid Haffaf. "Multipath Extension of the ZigBee Tree Routing in Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC) 4, no.2: 30-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/jmcmc.2012040103

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Abstract

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are one of the most challenging applications of WSN. They require large amounts of data to be transmitted with high reporting rates which consume an order of magnitude of resources, such as storage, computation, bandwidth, and energy. On the other hand, the ZigBee standard was originally specified for low data rate, low power consumption, and low cost wireless personal area networks (WPANs), making it suitable to WSN. However, handling high data rate applications, such as video surveillance in WPANs, is a challenge. Simultaneous multipath routing is one solution to increase the available bandwidth in a ZigBee network. In this paper, we proposed Z-MHTR (ZigBee Multipath Hierarchical Tree Routing), a node disjoint multipath routing extension of the ZigBee tree routing protocol in cluster-tree WSNs. Extensive simulations were performed and showed that the propsed multipath routing enhances application performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, and network lifetime even under heavy data rates.

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