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ZBP: A Zone-Based Broadcasting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely used in motoring and collecting interests of environment information. Packet flooding or broadcasting is an essential function for establishing a communication path from sink node to a region of sensor nodes. However, flooding operation consumes power and bandwidth resources and raises the packet collision and contention problems, which reduce the success rate of packet transmissions and consume energy. This article proposes an efficient broadcasting protocol to reduce the number of sensor nodes that forward the query request, hence improves the packet delivery rate and saves bandwidth and power consumptions. Sensor node that received the query request will dynamically transfers the coordinate system according to the zone-ID of source node and determines whether it would forward the request or not in a distributed manner. Compared with the CBM and traditional flooding operation, experimental results show that the proposed zone-based broadcasting protocol decreases the bandwidth and power consumptions, reduces the packet collisions, and achieves high success rate of packet broadcasting.

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Chih-Yung Chang received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in 1995. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Aletheia University, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor in 1997. He was the Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Aletheia University, from August 2000 to July 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University, Taiwan. Dr. Chang served as an Associate Guest Editor of Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), Special Issue on “Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks” (2004) and a member of Editorial Board of Tamsui Oxford Journal of Mathematical Sciences (2001–2005). He was an Area Chair of IEEE AINA′2005, Vice Chair of IEEE WisCom2005, Track Chair (Learning Technology in Education Track) of IEEE ITRE′2005, Program Co-Chair of MNSA′2005, Workshop Co-Chair of INA′2005, MSEAT′2003, MSEAT′2004, Publication Chair of MSEAT′2005, and the Program Committee Member of ICPP′2004, USW′2005, WASN′2005, and the 11th Mobile Computing Workshop. Dr. Chang is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and IEICE society. His current research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile learning, Bluetooth radio systems, Ad Hoc wireless networks, and mobile computing.

Kuei-Ping Shih received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in June 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in June 1998. After two years of military obligation, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Republic of China, as an assistant professor in 2000. Dr. Shih served as a Program Area Chair in the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2005, and as a Technical Track Chair in the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE), 2005. Dr. Shih’s current research interests include wireless networks, sensor networks, mobile computing, and network protocols design.

Dr. Shih is a member of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

Shih-Chieh Lee received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Tamkang University, Taiwan, in 1997. Since 2003 he has been a Ph.D. Students in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University. His research interests are wireless sensor networks, Ad Hoc wireless networks, and mobile/wireless computing.

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Chang, CY., Shih, KP. & Lee, SC. ZBP: A Zone-Based Broadcasting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 33, 53–68 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-6327-3

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