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A Reliable Broadcast Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks  

Choi, Won-Suk (중앙대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Cho, Sung-Rae (중앙대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.33, no.4B, 2008 , pp. 165-173 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new reliable broadcast protocol referred to as timer-based reliable broadcast (TRB) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The proposed TRB scheme exploits (1) bitmap based explicit ACK to effectively reduce the unnecessary error control messages and (2) randomized timer for ACK transmission to substantially reduce the possibility of contentions. Although it has been argued that 100% reliability is not necessary in WSNs, there should be messages (such as mission-critical message, task assignment, software updates, etc.) that need to be reliably delivered to the entire sensor field. We propose to use the TRB algorithm for such cases. Performance evaluation shows that the TRB scheme achieves 100 % reliability significantly better than other schemes with expense of slightly increased energy consumption.
Keywords
Wireless Sensor Network; Reliable Broadcast; Mesh Network; Timer-based Protocol;
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