Hierarchical geographic multicast routing for wireless sensor networks

• Published in: Wireless networks Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 449 - 466
• Main Authors: Koutsonikolas, Dimitrios, Das, Saumitra M., Hu, Y. Charlie, Stojmenovic, Ivan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.02.2010; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Electrical Engineering; Energy; Engineering; Global positioning systems; GPS; IT in Business; Localization; Maintenance costs; Networks; Optimization; Performance evaluation; Protocol; Routing; Scalability; Sensors; Statelessness; Studies; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Location-based multicast; Geographic routing; Scalability; Energy

Wireless sensor networks comprise typically dense deployments of large networks of small wireless capable sensor devices. In such networks, multicast is a fundamental routing service for efficient data dissemination required for activities such as code updates, task assignment and targeted queries....