Intelligent Traffic Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks in Agricultural Environment

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an area that has attracted a lot of attention currently worldwide. WSNs are implemented to monitor temperature, humidity, and pressure, among others within the agricultural environment. This paper addresses the traffic congestion that occurs within WSNs in the agricultural environment during packet transmission that is normally caused by head-of-line blocking. As a result, packet loss, packet delay, and network performance impairment occurred during packet distribution in the network. This paper proposed an Intelligence Traffic Routing (ITR) algorithm to manage packet flow to avoid traffic congestion in WSNs within the agricultural environment while improving Quality of Service (QoS). The LBRM (Load Balancing Routing Management) and MLCC (Machine Learning Congestion Control) algorithms were integrated to develop the proposed ITR algorithm. Network Simulator 2 (NS-2) was used to test the effectiveness of the proposed ITR algorithm. The simulation results showed that the proposed ITR algorithm reduced packet loss by 27.3%, packet delay by 43.4%, and improved network throughput by 98.4% when compared with LBRM and MLCC algorithms.