Modified EIRGP Routing Protocol for Backbone Infrastructure of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are increasingly penetrating into all areas of human life and activity. According to forecasts of leading experts in the field of telecommunications, sensor networks as a component of Internet of Things (IoT) in the medium term will take an important place among communication networks. QoS routing protocols for WMSN have been a growing topic of research for many years. In this paper we present a new approach called M-EIGRP (Modified-Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) with load balancing. This modification of the routing protocol is offered for low losses in the WMSN backbone infrastructure. The new protocol also offers a new flexible, multi-limited objective function that can integrate multiple metrics, including delay, load traffic and bandwidth to determine the end-to-end path.