Machine learning based efficient routing protocol in wireless sensor network

Abstract

Data loss and recovery are important factors that directly affect the efficiency of the wireless sensor network (WSN). The wireless channel characteristics have a significant impact on data transmission and reception. On the receiver side, the most difficult tasks are maximizing packet delivery ratio and recovering lost data. In some cases, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) based algorithms can provide better data recovery. The CRC method can be made adaptive by using channel characteristics to correct the error bits. This paper evaluates the performance of the proposed machine learning-based efficient routing protocol (ML-ERP). For data recovery, the CRC with channel impulse response (CIR) prediction based on sensor node location information was used. The data recovery capability of ML-ERP increased the network efficiency in terms of packet delivery ratio. Also, due to less data loss, the energy efficiency of the network was also improved by almost 6 % over existing protocols