Title :
A Two Base Stations Algorithm for Energy Balanced Data Propagation in Smart Home Sensor Networks
Author :
Nguyen, Bao Nguyen ; Choi, Deokjai
Author_Institution :
Chonnam Nat. Univ., Gwangju
Abstract :
Nowadays Smart Home seems to be getting popular. An essential element of Smart Home is its sensor network to convey environment information to the control station. There have been many communication protocols for this sensor network. A problem from previous protocols is unbalanced energy consumption among sensor nodes. Even though they tried to overcome unbalanced energy consumption, they could not solve this problem completely yet. In this paper, we found that the basic reason for this unbalanced energy consumption is that there is normally one base node. Because of this architectural problem, the nodes around this sink node lose their energy more easily in relevance to other nodes. So, we propose the sensor network model with 2 and only 2 base stations with simulations, and its corresponding communication protocol.
Keywords :
energy consumption; home automation; protocols; architectural problem; base stations algorithm; communication protocols; energy balanced data propagation; smart home sensor networks; unbalanced energy consumption; Base stations; Capacitive sensors; Computer networks; Energy consumption; Energy dissipation; Intelligent sensors; Protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Smart homes; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2983-7
DOI :
10.1109/CIT.2007.85
