Intelligent routing protocol for Multimedia Sensor Networks

Abstract

The increase in the usefulness of WSNs, have lead to the transmission of multimedia content over these networks. This has escorted to the concept of Wireless Multimedia Sensor networks (WMSNs). Due to resource constrained structure of WSNs, special attention is required to route data in these networks. In this paper, we propose a novel routing protocol for WMSNs which establishes paths on the basis of traffic load, hop count and node energy. The protocol aims to find completely or partially disjoint paths for routing multimedia traffic with relatively minimum distance. Simulation results have shown that the proposed protocol is capable of finding intelligent path such that it increases throughput and avoid creation of network holes near the sink. © 2011 IEEE.