A Novel Network Coding and Multi-path Routing Approach for Wireless Sensor Network

摘要

In recent times, there have been many advances in the field of information theory and wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies. Network coding is a new paradigm in data transport and promises to change many aspects of WSN. This paper proposes a network coding multipath routing algorithm in WSN (NC-WSN). It is typically proposed in order to increase the reliability of data transmission or to provide load balancing. We evaluate and compare our technique with several existing approaches by a set of simulations, using different scenarios and topologies. The simulations results suggest that the multipath diversity achieved with our proposition can significantly improve the network response time.