Energy characterization in the wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor networks, the type of data gets generated may vary depends on the importance and priority. As deployment sizes and data rates grow, congestion becomes a major problem in these networks. The congestion, results in arbitrary dropping of data packets that reduce the overall network throughput. This also leads to energy awareness in the network. In this paper, the various parameters, which help us to avoid and control the energy consumption in the wireless sensor network is discussed. The parameters considered in this paper are reporting rate as packets per seconds and packet size.