A Beacon Based Priority Routing Scheme for Solar Power Plants in WSNs

Solar power plants(SPPs) have shown a lot of good outcomes in providing a various functions depending on industrial expectations by deploying ad-hoc networking with helps of light loaded and battery powered sensor nodes. In particular, it is strongly requested to develop an algorithm to deriver the sensing data from the end node of solar power plants to the sink node on time. In this paper, based on the above observation we have proposed an IEEE802.15.4 based self routing scheme for solar power plants. The proposed beacon based priority routing Algorithm (BPRA) scheme utilizes beacon periods in sending message with embedding the high priority data and thus provides high quality of service(QoS) in the given criteria. The performance measures are the packet Throughput, delivery, latency, total energy consumption. Simulation results under TinyOS Simulator(TOSSIM) have shown the proposed scheme outcome the conventional Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector(AODV) Routing in solar power plants.

Authors:

• Ki-Sung Park
• Dae-Hee Lee
• Dae-Ho Won
• Yeon-Mo Yang

Keywords:

• Solar Power Plants(SPPs)
• Self routing
• Quality of Service(QoS)
• WPANs
• WSNs
• TinyOS
• TOSSIM
• IEEE802.15.4

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