A novel transmission power selection mechanism for wireless sensor networks

Author

Zhu, Shengliang ; Xu, Chen ; Sun, Qiang ; Huang, Xun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf., Nantong Univ., Nantong, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

661

Lastpage

665

Abstract

Minimum hop routing is an energy-efficient routing protocol with minimized energy consumption, but the reliability of data transmission is not enough. The routes tend to have a minimum hop count but contain weak links, which cause large number of data retransmissions. In this paper, a transmission power selection mechanism is proposed, where the power to transmit an overhead packet and a data packet are considered separately. Specifically, a power selection factor δ is proposed to enhance the quality of communication links. The results of simulation show that the number of data retransmissions is reduced by choosing the power selection factor appropriately.

Keywords

routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; communication links; energy consumption; energy-efficient routing protocol; minimum hop routing; power selection factor; transmission power selection; wireless sensor networks; Data models; Routing; Routing protocols; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; link quality; minimum hop routing; transmission power selection; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ningbo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6066415

Filename

6066415