DESIGN OF A MINIMAL OVERHEAD CONTROL TRAFFIC TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY AND DATA FORWARDING PROTOCOL FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Authors

  • Simon Atuah Asakipaam Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • Jerry John Kponyo Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • Justice Owusu Agyemang Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • Fredrick Appiah-Twum Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v12i3.4803

Abstract

Software-defined networking is a novel concept that is ported into wireless sensor networks to make them more manageable and customizable. unfortunately, the topology discovery and maintenance processes generate high overhead control packet exchange between the sensor nodes and the central controller leading to a deterioration of the network's performance. In this paper, a novel minimal overhead control traffic topology discovery and data forwarding protocol is proposed and detailed. The proposed protocol requires some changes to the topology discovery protocol implemented in SDN-WISE to improve its performance. The proposed protocol has been implemented within the IT-SDN framework for evaluation. The results show reduced overhead control traffic and increase, of about 20%, data packet delivery rate over the protocol in SDN-WISE.

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2020-12-23 — Updated on 2022-04-16

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How to Cite

Asakipaam, S. A., Kponyo, J. J., Agyemang, J. O., & Appiah-Twum, F. (2022). DESIGN OF A MINIMAL OVERHEAD CONTROL TRAFFIC TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY AND DATA FORWARDING PROTOCOL FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS), 12(3). https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v12i3.4803 (Original work published December 23, 2020)

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2020)

Section

Research Articles