Hybrid congestion control protocol in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks, congestion occurs when every sensor node will send the event it has sensed to a sink node. This operation makes the sensors closer to the sink, resulting in congestion. Congestion may cause packets loss, lower network throughput and sensor energy waste. In this paper, we propose a hybrid congestion control protocol that considers not only the packets delivery rate but also retains the buffer size of each node. The proposed protocol may avoid packets drop due to traffic congestion and improve the network throughput. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed protocol is better than the previous works. ©2008 IEEE.