下行路由是无线传感器网络路由的一个重要组成部分.利用分布式编址算法为每个节点分配一个下行地址,在转发下行报文时,中间节点利用目的地址即可确定下一跳节点,从而可以通过单播转发实现基站到单个传感器节点的下行通信.在TinyOS上实现了编址算法和下行路由,仿真结果表明和基于广播转发的下行路由协议相比,该协议可以大幅减少报文转发次数,降低了路由开销.同时,因为减少了通信冲突,该下行路由协议对上行数据传输的影响也较小,适合那些既需要上行通信也需要频繁进行下行通信的无线传感器网络使用.
This paper presents a low overhead downstream routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Each sensor node is assigned a downstream address and the next hop of a downstream packet can be inferred by the destination address. This protocol is applied to the downstream communication of TinyOS. The simulation results show that this protocol can effectively decrease the downstream routing overhead. At the same time this protocol displays less affect on upstream communication than the broadcast based downstream protocols.