title: QoS and energy aware cooperative routing protocol for wildfire monitoring wireless sensor networks.
abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are presented as proper solution for wildfire monitoring. However, this application requires a design of WSN taking into account the network lifetime and the shadowing effect generated by the trees in the forest environment. Cooperative communication is a promising solution for WSN which uses, at each hop, the resources of multiple nodes to transmit its data. Thus, by sharing resources between nodes, the transmission quality is enhanced. In this paper, we use the technique of reinforcement learning by opponent modeling, optimizing a cooperative communication protocol based on RSSI and node energy consumption in a competitive context (RSSI/energy-CC), that is, an energy and quality-of-service aware-based cooperative communication routing protocol. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm performs well in terms of network lifetime, packet delay, and energy consumption.
authors.affiliation: Engineering School of Telecommunications of Tunis (Sup'Com), City of Communications Technologies, El Ghazala 2083, Ariana, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maalej
authors.forename: Sofiane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cherif
authors.forename: Hichem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Besbes
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005390:Fires; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007259:Infrared Rays; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*