Amelioration of MPR by a backbone-based broadcasting algorithm for WSNs
Tarek Moulahi, Salem Nasri, Hervé Guyennet · 2012
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are sets of many sensors that gather data and collaborate together. So, the procedures of broadcast or multicast are more important than traditional point-to-point communication in computer network. This paper focuses on broadcasting in structured WSNs. In such a kind, the procedure of network communications is easier than in unstructured WSNs. Thus, we will make an overview of MultiPoint Relay: (MPR) to show its weakness. Then, we will define a cluster-based architecture for WSNs which is constructed using MPR. Next, we will provide a new broadcast algorithm based on the previous cluster architecture and called 3B: Backbone Based Broadcasting. By the end, an illustration of 3B shows that it minimizes the energy consumption for accomplishing broadcast compared to MPR.