Opportunistic Distance-aware Routing in Multi-Sink Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks are a research area of growing importance within the Wireless Networks research community. One of the major issues in this area is the search for efficient routing methods. Most of the routing algorithms developed so far are limited to single-sink scenarios with no or limited mobility. This paper presents a new routing approach, ODEUR (Opportunistic relative DistanceEnabled Unicast Routing), that is targeted to Sensor Networks with mobility-induced intermittent connectivity and multiple alternative sinks as it is often seen in wildlife or habitat monitoring applications.