A Collaborative Wireless Sensor Network Routing Scheme for Reducing Energy Wastage

Author

Boyd, Alan W F ; Balasubramaniam, Dharini ; Dearle, Alan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of St Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

23-27 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of battery-powered nodes in which data is routed from sources to sinks. Each node consumes energy in order to transmit or receive on its radio. Consequently, an intermediate node that is used by multiple sources will quickly expire. If some sources are unable to route without the presence of that node, any remaining energy they have is wasted. We present a new routing scheme known as node reliance, which rates the degree to which nodes are relied upon in routing. The use of node reliance reduces the contention for intermediate nodes, permitting sources to route to sinks for longer and thus maximising the useful lifetime of the network.

Keywords

energy conservation; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; battery-powered nodes; collaborative wireless sensor network routing; energy wastage reduction; node reliance; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; Energy management; Floods; Load management; Physical layer; Routing protocols; Scalability; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Workshops (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Capetown

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6824-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2010.5503896

Filename

5503896