Dynamical Jumping Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces DMRF, a dynamic, fault-tolerant routing protocol for wireless sensor networks that adapts to failures and congestion to ensure timely data delivery with high reliability.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel dynamic jumping transmission mode that improves fault tolerance and reduces delay in real-time WSN routing.

Findings

Reduces transmission delay and control packets.

Increases successful transmission ratio.

Effectively handles node failures and congestion.

Abstract

In time-critical wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, a high degree of reliability is commonly required. A dynamical jumping real-time fault-tolerant routing protocol (DMRF) is proposed in this paper. Each node utilizes the remaining transmission time of the data packets and the state of the forwarding candidate node set to dynamically choose the next hop. Once node failure, network congestion or void region occurs, the transmission mode will switch to jumping transmission mode, which can reduce the transmission time delay, guaranteeing the data packets to be sent to the destination node within the specified time limit. By using feedback mechanism, each node dynamically adjusts the jumping probabilities to increase the ratio of successful transmission. Simulation results show that DMRF can not only efficiently reduce the effects of failure nodes, congestion and void region, but also yield higher ratio of successful transmission, smaller transmission delay and reduced number of control packets.