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Distributed multi-hop cooperative communication in dense wireless sensor networks

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In this paper, we investigate the use of cooperative communications for high performance data dissemination in dense wireless sensor networks. We first identify the limitations of existing cooperative schemes. While we previously proposed a multi-hop cooperative data dissemination scheme, REER, to address these limitations, the construction of such structure relies on a pre-established reference path. The partially centralized approach makes REER unscalable when encountering network dynamics. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel distributed multi-hop cooperative communication scheme (DMC), which is fully distributed and consists of two operation phases: (1) cooperative mesh structure (CMS) construction, and (2) CMS-based data dissemination, which includes random value-based scheme and distance-based scheme for forwarding node selection. Simulation results show that DMC performs well in terms of a number of QoS metrics, and fits well in large-scale networks and highly dynamic environments.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea

    Min Chen

  2. WISENET Lab, Hebei Polytechnic University, Tangshan, 063009, China

    Min Chen

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

    Meikang Qiu

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Linxia Liao

  5. Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 501-759, Korea

    Jongan Park

  6. Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, 3-7-2, Kajino-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, 184-8584, Japan

    Jianhua Ma

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Chen, M., Qiu, M., Liao, L. et al. Distributed multi-hop cooperative communication in dense wireless sensor networks. J Supercomput 56, 353–369 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-010-0382-6

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