Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Tang, Wendy K | Noel, Eric
Date
2016-12-01
Keywords
CTP, SDN, WSN | Electrical engineering
Department
Department of Electrical Engineering
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77437
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis aims to find out whether a centralized routing protocol with a dynamic routing table could perform as well as a decentralized routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Towards this goal, a Software-defined Networking (SDN) based protocol is proposed and its performance is measured against a popular decentralized routing protocol, Control Tree Protocol (CTP). The goal is to investigate whether an implementation of SDN in a sensor network would offer WSN applications an advantage by compromising on autonomy to possibly increase efficiency and application diversity. This thesis shows that, although the performance of the SDN-based protocol is inferior than that of a decentralized protocol, it offers more flexibility in terms dynamic variations to node function by updating a routing table as opposed to manually reprogramming a node to perform a different task as in the case of a traditional decentralized routing protocol. The proposed SDN-based implementation is a novel idea to the extent of our knowledge. We did not find any other such implementation in our literature survey. | 64 pages
Recommended Citation
Aruni Babu, Divith, "SDN-based WSN Routing Protocol" (2016). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3252.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3252