Protocolos de roteamento cientes de QoS para redes de sensores e atuadores sem fio

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are increasingly being deployed for fine-grain monitoring of physical environments subjected to critical conditions such as fire, leaking of toxic gases and explosions. A great challenge to these networks is to provide channels that satisfy the necessities of the applications for events propagation, even in the presence of emergency conditions that can lead to node failures and path disruption to the sink that receives those events. Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms can be applied that meet application requirements such as: low latency and packet delivery reliability, fast path repair in the presence of faults and network longevity with uniform energy dissipation. This work presents QoS-based routing solutions, which aims to meet, simultaneously, the main requirements mentioned above. The proposed solutions were implemented and simulated in the NS-2 simulator. Important metrics, such as end-to-end delay, packet loss rate, control messages overhead and energy consumption, were evaluated. The results show that the proposed solutions can be a potential alternative to the supervision and control of physical environments subject to emergency situations