Research Agenda

Students: Sheldon Bedasse (gtg016w@mail.gatech.edu), Jonathan Bravo (gtg980w@mail.gatech.edu)

Mentor: ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (eouldahm@ece.gatech.edu)

Goal: 

Implementation and evaluation of various geographical routing protocols for wireless sensor networks and their effects on energy efficiency and communication performance

Description:

Sensor networks are composed of smart nodes, each having sensing, communication and computing capabilities. These networks have a wide range of application such as environmental monitoring, target tracking, and health care, etc. Sensor nodes are powered by batteries, which combined with the remote deployment site, makes the energy an important, if not the most important, resource for a sensor network.

Geographical routing for wireless sensor networks has received growing interest in recent years. Under such a scheme, nodes use their location-awareness to route information in an energy-efficient way. Several geographical routing protocols have been proposed in the recent years. The aim of this project is to implement two of these protocols in GTSNetS (the Georgia Tech Sensor Network Simulator) and study their performance under various simulation settings. The two protocols are: GEAR (Geographical and Energy Aware Routing) and GeRaF(Geographic Random Forwarding).

Timeline:

October 13-October 25: Learn basics about wireless sensor networks and the GTSNetS simulator

October 25-November 21: Learn in detail the two geographical routing protocols

November 21-December 6: Gain familiarity with the architecture and programming of the GTSNetS simulator

January: Implementing the two routing protocols on GTSNetS

February: Testing and validation of the protocols implementation

March: Preparing and running simulation scenarios