Implementation of Improved TOPSIS Method for Congestion Control in WSN

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes are limited in memory, battery power and computational power. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a specific category of wireless adhoc networks where their performance is highly affected by application, lifetime, storage capacity, topology changes and the communication medium and bandwidth. Whenever the traffic load in the network increases, buffer at a node becomes full and it cannot handle any more data packets. This causes packet loss and retransmission which affects delivery ratio, energy and decreases network lifetime. Congestion is an important issue in wireless networks. Congestion in WSN severely affects loss rate, channel quality, the number of retransmissions, traffic flow, network lifetime, delay, energy as well as throughput. The congestion can be resolved in WSN either by reducing the data rate or by increasing the resources to form alternative paths. In this paper, an Implementation of Improved TOPSIS Method for congestion control in WSN known as Improved Hierarchical tree Alternative path protocol has been proposed which provides an improved performance over the basic HTAP protocol.