title: Congestion control for a fair packet delivery in WSN: from a complex system perspective.
abstract: In this work, we propose that packets travelling across a wireless sensor network (WSN) can be seen as the active agents that make up a complex system, just like a bird flock or a fish school, for instance. From this perspective, the tools and models that have been developed to study this kind of systems have been applied. This is in order to create a distributed congestion control based on a set of simple rules programmed at the nodes of the WSN. Our results show that it is possible to adapt the carried traffic to the network capacity, even under stressing conditions. Also, the network performance shows a smooth degradation when the traffic goes beyond a threshold which is settled by the proposed self-organized control. In contrast, without any control, the network collapses before this threshold. The use of the proposed solution provides an effective strategy to address some of the common problems found in WSN deployment by providing a fair packet delivery. In addition, the network congestion is mitigated using adaptive traffic mechanisms based on a satisfaction parameter assessed by each packet which has impact on the global satisfaction of the traffic carried by the WSN.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), 09340 Mexico, DF, Mexico.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4945-7258
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aguirre-Guerrero
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), 09340 Mexico, DF, Mexico.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5355-5830
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marcelín-Jiménez
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), 09340 Mexico, DF, Mexico.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1696-3349
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodriguez-Colina
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), 09340 Mexico, DF, Mexico.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4057-8715
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pascoe-Chalke
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000379:methods*; D059015:Wireless Technology