Locality Driven Congestion Control in Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks

Congestion control is an essential task in communication networks. Especially in ad hoc and sensor networks, the task of bandwidth management and congestion control is very expensive. We propose a novel methodology for congestion control in sensor networks, which does not rely on the assumptions of topology knowledge, addressing, and bidirectional communication. Furthermore, an autonomous behavior of the intercommunicating nodes is guaranteed, i.e. a self-organizing behavior is achieved. This methodology is directly based on communication paradigms of sensor networks, which are dissimilar of the behavior of typical networks such as the Internet.