Energy-balancing multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
Yunfeng Chen, Nidal Nasser · 2006
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of wireless sensor nodes forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. In such an environment, due to the limited range of each node's wireless transmissions, it may be necessary for one sensor node to ask for the aid of other sensor nodes in forwarding a packet to its destination, usually the base station. One big issue when designing wireless sensor network is the routing protocol to make the best use of the severe resource constraints presented by WSN, especially the energy limitation. In this paper, we propose a new scheme called EBMR: Energy-Balancing Multipath Routing Protocol that uses multipath alternately to prolong the lifetime of the network.