Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity

LSU SensorSimulator is a framework for simulating wireless sensor networks. It is a customizable and extendible simulator, which allows testing and analyzing software for wireless sensor networks. The users can subclass the framework classes and customize the behavior of various network layers. This...

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Main Author:	Suri, Ankur
Other Authors:	Sitharama S Iyengar
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Language:	en
Published:	LSU 2005
Subjects:	Computer Science
Online Access:	http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11172005-132928/

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spelling	ndltd-LSU-oai-etd.lsu.edu-etd-11172005-1329282013-01-07T22:50:23Z Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity Suri, Ankur Computer Science LSU SensorSimulator is a framework for simulating wireless sensor networks. It is a customizable and extendible simulator, which allows testing and analyzing software for wireless sensor networks. The users can subclass the framework classes and customize the behavior of various network layers. This subclassing gives a way to the developers an opportunity to analyze and investigate, phenomenological, networking, robustness and scaling issues, to explore arbitrary algorithms for distributed sensors, independent of hardware constraint. The results are compared against the simulation results for ns-2 for routing protocols Directed Diffusion and GEAR. Through the comparison of results for scalability, performance and memory utilization it is observed that LSU SensorSimulator performs much better. Buddy load sharing routing protocol is a routing protocol which can be combined with any geographically aware routing protocol to increase the network life and connectivity. The performance of Buddy load sharing algorithm for network life, and it is found that for a very negligible overhead the network life and connectivity and be improved by buddy load sharing. Sitharama S Iyengar Rajgopal Kannan Anitra C Wilson LSU 2005-11-28 text application/pdf http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11172005-132928/ http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11172005-132928/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached herein a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to LSU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below and in appropriate University policies, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report.
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description	LSU SensorSimulator is a framework for simulating wireless sensor networks. It is a customizable and extendible simulator, which allows testing and analyzing software for wireless sensor networks. The users can subclass the framework classes and customize the behavior of various network layers. This subclassing gives a way to the developers an opportunity to analyze and investigate, phenomenological, networking, robustness and scaling issues, to explore arbitrary algorithms for distributed sensors, independent of hardware constraint. The results are compared against the simulation results for ns-2 for routing protocols Directed Diffusion and GEAR. Through the comparison of results for scalability, performance and memory utilization it is observed that LSU SensorSimulator performs much better. Buddy load sharing routing protocol is a routing protocol which can be combined with any geographically aware routing protocol to increase the network life and connectivity. The performance of Buddy load sharing algorithm for network life, and it is found that for a very negligible overhead the network life and connectivity and be improved by buddy load sharing.
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title	Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity
title_short	Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity
title_full	Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity
title_fullStr	Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity
title_full_unstemmed	Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity
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Simulation Study for Wireless Sensor Networks and Load Sharing Routing Protocol to Increase Network Life and Connectivity

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