Abstract:

In these recent years Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been widely used in many types of applications such as environment monitoring or asset tracking. In these applications, each sensor node may collect different types of data with different levels of importance. Each type of traffic requires a different treatment from the network to meet the objective of QoS (Quality of Service). We argue that the sensor networks should be willing to spend more resources in disseminating packets that carry more important information. In this paper we propose a new protocol with differentiated services for WSNs called Diff-HEEP. The proposed protocol is an enhancement of HEEP protocol that can provide requested quality of service for high priority real time classes and distinguish high priority real time traffic from the low priority non-real time traffic, and input traffic streams are then served based on their priorities.

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