Virtual position-based ring routing protocol for wireless sensor network

Abstract

A virtual position-based ring routing protocol was presented. This protocol can serve as the infrastructure of a large-scale and data-oriented service in wireless sensor network. This protocol used distributed Hash table to manage data. The idea of using virtual position lead to the benefit that less redundant routing information was generated, and thus the routing paths were optimized. This benefit also reduced nodes' working load and improve data transmission efficiency. Detailed simulation and comparison with relative protocol show that this protocol achieves good efficiency and scalability.