Review Article
Survey of QoS Routing Protocols in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Table 5
Comparison of five and more-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 |
| HQAX [62]
Springer 2009 | Hierarchical | () Delay
() SNR
() PLR
() Remaining energy of Tx
() Remaining energy of Rx | — | — | — | — | — | — | √ | √ | — | — | √ | √ | — | √ | — | — | — | NS-2
[87] | AODV [78] | () High throughput
() Less PLR
() Less overhead
() Utility theory based
cost function | () Less delay efficient
() No priority | LBA-EA [63]
IEEE 2010 | Flat | () Residual energy
() Initial energy
() Number of nodes
() Number of links
() Enhanced airtime link metric | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | √ | √ | √ | √ | — | — | — | √ | NS-3
[107] | Baseline default Airtime metric | () High throughput
() Improve N/w lifetime
() High PDR | () Extra overhead
() No comparison with previous schemes | POWQR [42]
IEEE 2013 | Flat | () Number of hops
() BER
() Remaining energy
() Distance
() Delay | √ | — | — | — | √ | Event | — | — | — | √ | √ | √ | √ | — | — | √ | — | Castalia
[94] | EARQ [108]
LOCALM-OR [109] | () Reliable
() Load balancing
() Improve N/w lifetime | () Extra overhead
() Not scalable | Serhan and Diab
[43]
IEEE 2015 | Flat | () Remaining energy
() Hop count- source till current node
() Distance with neighbors
() History of current stream
() Traffic priority | √ | √ | √ | — | √ | — | — | — | — | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | — | — | — | AGEM [39] | () Reliable
() Low delay | () Extra overhead
() Results shown with very less number of nodes and packets |
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