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As Wireless Sensor Networks are being adopted by industry and agriculture for large-scale and unattended deployments, the need for reliable and energy conservative protocols become critical. Physical and Link layer efforts for energy conservation are not mostly considered by routing protocols that p...

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Autores: Vilajosana, Xavier, Llosa, Jordi, Pacho, Jose Carlos, Vilajosana, Ignasi, Juan, Ángel A.|||0000-0003-1392-1776, Lopez Vicario, Jose|||0000-0002-3574-4697, Morell, Antoni|||0000-0003-2249-8594
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:201649
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/201649
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/s101008920
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Agriculture and industry
Collection-tree-protocol
Energy efficiency
Gradient routing
Probabilistic routing
Wireless sensor networks
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Sumario:As Wireless Sensor Networks are being adopted by industry and agriculture for large-scale and unattended deployments, the need for reliable and energy conservative protocols become critical. Physical and Link layer efforts for energy conservation are not mostly considered by routing protocols that put their efforts on maintaining reliability and throughput. Gradient-based routing protocols route data through most reliable links aiming to ensure 99% packet delivery. However, they suffer from the so-called"hot spot" problem. Most reliable routes waste their energy fast, thus partitioning the network and reducing the area monitored. To cope with this"hot spot" problem we propose ZERO a combined approach at Network and Link layers to increase network lifespan while conserving reliability levels by means of probabilistic load balancing techniques.