TikiriMC: A Multi-Casting Enabled, Configurable Ad-Hoc Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

This report, prepared by a 4th year student of the University of Colombo School of Computing as a partial requirement of the degree of Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), will describe TikiriMC Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. TikiriMC is a wireless ad-hoc routing protocol, designed for resource constrained networking environments. It provides application programming interfaces to easily implement unicasting, broadcasting and multicasting. Flexible con guration of TikiriMC allows one to easily adopt it into a desired platform. TikiriMC uses tree network topology, where there can be many such trees in a single network. Root nodes of these multiple trees form a separate mesh network. Performance tests conclude that TikiriMC has a very low routing delay compared to other implementations.