Quad-Interleaving Routing Algorithm for Performance Enhancement of Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Monitoring

Abstract

The pipeline is one of the main modes oftransportation for the oil and gas industry that could be laid offshore and onshore. Pipeline transportation requires close monitoring as a failure in pipelines causes disruption of supply, loss of precious commodities and not to mention irreversible environmental damage will be an essential topic. The major issue in AODV and DSDV is when the network gets more extensive, which causes high packet traffic resulting in high packet loss, energy consumption and passive nodes. This research aims to establish a routing algorithm with better performance focusing on throughput, fairness index, delivery ratio and passive nodes and energy consumption. The study is confined to wireless sensor network simulation on Network Simulator Tool. A technique of quad-interleaving Ad-hoc On- demand Distance Vector (QAODV) routing algorithm has been developed where predefined Alpha, Beta, Charlie and Delta nodes will communicate with the nodes which belong to their family. The results of the developed routing protocol have been compared with standard AODV, DSDV and OLSR routing protocols. The developed routing algorithm has produced a massive improvement in the delivery ratio (25% more), throughput (44% more), passive nodes (71 less), fairness index (0.06 more) and energy consumption (0.22J less).