WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Print ISSN: 1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402
Volume 15, 2018
An Optimal Solution to Minimize the Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network has been widely used in all the fields for the past few years. In many recent wireless sensor network applications such as environmental monitoring, medical applications and surveillance, there is a need for providing the uninterrupted coverage of a sensing field with long instant, this is one of the obvious problem attracted many researchers as well as general users. In any aspects, the sensor nodes are energized by low powered devices; it is one of the critical aspects to reduce the energy consumption to improve the lifetime to some extent. In this research, initially we concentrated on the energy consumption for the typical sensor node component by assuming the grid network with shortest path technique. Secondly, the direction is made to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. Special focus is given over the areas which have not yet get more attention in the literature such as data aggregation along with load balancing techniques. Extensive simulations are conducted in Network Simulator-2 to test the effectiveness of the proposed load balancing scheme. The results proved that the proposed scheme achieves over 8% energy-saving per node and the throughput improves to 18.2% with data collection through multi-hop relay. The simulation results show that, our algorithm can balance the network traffic in real-time.
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Pages: 140-146
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-0832 / 2224-3402, Volume 15, 2018, Art. #17