An ad-hoc routing control method in sensor networks

Since a great number of sensors are located in sensor networks, it is necessary to connect through wireless networks between sensors in order to achieve availability to the user. The wireless ad-hoc routing technology is one of the most important elements for sensor networks, and if conventional routing control methods are applied to such a multi-to-peer communication network, a great many control packets are required in order to make routes since it assumes peer-to-peer communication. In multi-to-peer communications, the links which are near to the node that requests connection are used repeatedly. We focus on this feature and propose a routing control method in order to reduce control packets in multi-to-peer communication.