A energy balanced deployment for linear wireless sensor networks

Linear wireless sensor networks are characterized by a linear topology and muItihop forwarding patterns. Sensors closer to the base station are usually required to forward a large amount of traffic for sensors farther from the base station, leading to the environment cannot be effectively monitored. The energy consumption balance is achieved in the paper by adjusting the distance between nodes. The distance of nodes near the base station become short because they have to forward the more traffic. The node deployment is converted to optimization problems of distance distribution between nodes. The network lifetime under different number of forwarding region is discussed. Simulation results show that this deployment strategy obtains the energy consumption balance.