Wireless Sensor Actor Networks and Routing Performance Analysis
چکیده
With recent advances in micro-electromechanical systems technology, wireless communications, and digital electronics, the research on wireless sensor networks becomes a “hot” topic. Wireless sensor and actor network (WSAN) is referred to a group of sensors and actors linked by wireless medium to perform sensing and acting tasks. This paper is to present a comprehensive review of recent research achievements on WSANs, open research issues, and the simulation based actor-to-actor routing protocols performance analysis. The review is followed the layers of sensor networks: application, transport, network, link, transmission, and management (power, mobility, task). The performance analysis is considered for three popular ad-hoc networks routing protocols and investigated with respect to the routing packet delay and end-to-end throughput. As a result, the DSR protocol is proposed to handle actor-to-actor communications.