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On Multipath Balancing and Expanding for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

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Communication and Networking (FGCN 2009)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 56))

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Multiple disjointed paths have been demonstrated to be effective in delivering multimedia traffic in wireless sensor networks, and improving the network performance in terms of bandwidth aggregation, reliability and network lifetime. In this paper, we investigate the use of directional geographical routing for multipath construction for multimedia data dissemination, and identify the challenging issue of achieving multipath balancing in proximity to the source/sink. While our previous work addresses the multipath expanding problem efficiently, this paper presents a novel scheme to achieve the paths balancing distribution to alleviate the contention between the paths when close to the sink. The path construction is divided into expanding phase, parallel phase and converging phase in the proposed scheme, which includes two key algorithms, i.e., the detection algorithm for path construction phase and the deviation angle adjustment algorithm. Simulation results that verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme are presented.

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  1. School of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Seoul National Univ., Korea

    Min Chen

  2. Dept. of Elect & Comp Eng, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Victor C. M. Leung

  3. Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

    Lei Shu

  4. Institute & Dept. of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

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  1. University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc., Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

  2. Hannam University, 306-791, Daejeon, South Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  3. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan

    Alan Chin-Chen Chang

  4. University of Western Macedonia, West Macedonia, Greece

    Thanos Vasilakos

  5. Tianjin University, China

    MingChu Li

  6. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, 812-8581, Fukuoka, Japan

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Chen, M., Leung, V.C.M., Shu, L., Chao, HC. (2009). On Multipath Balancing and Expanding for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. In: Ślęzak, D., Kim, Th., Chang, A.CC., Vasilakos, T., Li, M., Sakurai, K. (eds) Communication and Networking. FGCN 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10844-0_42

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