Review Article

Survey of QoS Routing Protocols in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Table 4

Comparison of quartet-metric link/path cost-dependent QoS routing protocols for WMSNs.

Protocol and publication year Architecture Metric for link/path selection Multipath
support
Service diff. Hole bypassing Security Location aware Data delivery model Cross-layer support Scalability Mobility Energy efficiency Load
balancing
Reliability Congestion support Reduce packet drops Priority Adjust TX power Avoid interpath interference Simulator/software Compared with Strengths Weaknesses

Akkaya and Younis
[37]
Springer 2005
Hierarchical() Distance
() Residual energy
() PLR
() Delay
Query () Best-effort transmission
() High throughput
() Low delay
() Require complete knowledge of topology
() Not scalable
() No adaptive bandwidth sharing
() No comparison with previous schemes
GEAMS [38]
IEEE 2009
Flat() Remaining energy
() Hop count from source till current node
() Distance with neighbors
() History of current stream
EventOMNET++
[89]
GPSR [74]() Low delay
() Less packet drops
() Scalable
() Improve N/w lifetime
() Performs poorly in less dense network
() No packet priority
AGEM [39]
IEEE 2010
Flat() Remaining energy
() Hop count from source till current node
() Distance with neighbors
() History of current stream
EventOMNET++
[89]
GPSR [74]() Low delay
() Less packet drops
() Scalable
() Improve N/w lifetime
() Performing poorly in less dense network
() No packet priority
S-AOMDV
[55]
IEEE 2010
Flat() Residual energy
() Hop count
() Free buffer size
() PLR
NS-2 [87]
Evalvid
[95]
AOMDV
[104]
() Good PSNR
() Less frame loss
() Extra overhead
() More energy consumption
REP [56]
IEEE 2010
Flat() Remaining energy of node
() Average remaining energy of all nodes
() Reaching probability
() Reliability requirement
Baseline REP
() Reliable
() Energy prediction
() Adjusting transmit power based on remaining energy
() Intrapath interference at high power level
() No comparison with previous schemes
() No congestion control
ARCH [57]
Hindawi 2010
Hierarchical() Remaining energy of node
() Average remaining energy of all nodes
() Reaching probability
() Reliability requirement

Only intercluster
Baseline ARCH () Reliable
() Energy prediction
() Adjusting transmit power
() Intrapath interference
() No congestion control
() No comparison with previous schemes
IQAR [58]
IEEE 2011
Flat() Residual energy
() PDR
() Delay
() Reliability requirement
EventJ-SIM
[97]
MMSPEED
[30]
() Good PSNR
() Reliable
() Low delay when
a number of flows are more
() Prioritization limited to
only images
() Performance not good when a number of flows are less
ACOWMSN
[59]
IEEE 2011
Flat() Bandwidth
() Delay
() PLR
() Remaining energy
NS-2
[87]
M-IAR [100]
AODV [78]
() Low delay
() Improve N/w lifetime
() High PDR
() Generates extra heavy traffic
() Slow convergence
EEQAR
[60]
IEEE 2011
Hierarchical() Remaining energy
() Trust value
() Data correlation coefficient
() Hop count
ARCH [57]() Improve N/w lifetime
() Mobility support
() Data fusion support
() Path-interference at high power level
() No congestion support
CR-WMSN [61]
IEEE 2012
flat() PST
() Channel utilization
() Hop count
() Remaining energy
EventNS-2
[87]
Min hop algorithm() Low delay
() High throughput
() Restricted N/W lifetime
() Restricted load balancing
() No priority
Dong et al.
[66]
IEEE 2012
Flat() Bandwidth
() Delay
() Jitter
() PLR
Waxman Model
[99]
() Multiobjective
optimization
() Increase in probability to find optimal solution
() Output depends on Pareto solution set
() More complexity
Bae et al. [40]
IJMUE 2014
Flat() Distance
() Remaining energy
() LQI
() Traffic priority
Visual Studio [105]() Reliable
() Low delay
() Service differentiation
() Extra overhead
() No comparison with previous schemes
PWDGR [41]
IEEE 2015
Flat() Number of hops
() One-hop distance
() Path contract angle
() Included angle
EventOpnet
[85]
DGR [106]() Improve N/w lifetime
() More paths
() Energy sensitive
() High delay
() More hop counts
() Poor performance in small density networks