An energy efficient routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Author

Qiang Dou ; Aihua Shao ; Kang Zhu ; Peisi Chu ; Yonghua Xiao ; Yunfeng Peng ; Keping Long

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Fiber Sensing & Commun. Educ. Minist. of China, Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2012

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

823

Lastpage

827

Abstract

Energy is one of the most crucial issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Hierarchical routing protocols are best known for energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient multi-hop hierarchical routing protocol which balances the load of network and reduces the cluster heads energy dissipation. According to the density of sensor nodes in monitoring area, the protocol can dynamically determine the size of the cluster. Furthermore, we propose a weight function to dynamically select the next hop appropriately and transmit data by multi-hop manner. Simulation results show that the new protocol can reduce energy consumption and obviously improve the network lifetime.

Keywords

routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; WSN; cluster head energy dissipation; cluster size; energy consumption; energy-efficient multihop hierarchical routing protocol; hierarchical routing protocols; monitoring area; network lifetime improvement; sensor node density; wireless sensor network; energy-efficient; hierarchical routing protocol; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (APCC), 2012 18th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4726-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4727-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2012.6388196

Filename

6388196