An Efficient Multi-Path Self-Organizing Strategy in Internet of Things

In order to improve the organizing performance and fault tolerance of the wireless network protocol GEAR based on the geographical location information in the Internet of things and achieve better energy distribution and conservation effects. This paper proposes a new multipath routing organizing protocol (SMG, Self-organized Multipath GEAR) based on the basic geographic routing protocol GEAR. By two-step organizing, communication empty nodes and communication hole can join the network respectively and energy spreading out and mechanism of dormancy of the multi-path are utilized to spread out and save energy. Meanwhile, this paper presents an approximate estimation algorithm to estimate the number of the nodes in the monitoring region with a certain size and regular shape. The critical path node goes to failure in different times while received packet rate is monitored using the experiment of NS2 simulation and actual hardware. The experiment results show that the improved protocol increases the fault tolerance of the network, reduces the paralysis rate of the network and achieves the effect of energy spreading out and saving, increases the lifetime of the network through a multi-path strategy.