Energy Conserving Opportunistic Routing for self-powered wireless sensor networks

Author

Spachos, Petros ; Hatzinakos, Dimitrios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

April 27 2014-May 2 2014

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

120

Abstract

Survivability is a looming threat for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) especially when they are used for monitoring and tracking applications with limited available resources. Self-powered WSNs can alleviate the problem and extend network lifetime. In this poster, we introduce an Energy Conserving Opportunistic Routing (ECOR) protocol that tries to keep a balance between the energy consumption and the packet delay. Every node is self-powered and draws energy via solar panels. Preliminary simulation results are presented that show an increase in network lifetime of up to 25% compared with simple opportunistic routing while the packet delay is similar.

Keywords

routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; ECOR protocol; WSN; energy conserving opportunistic routing protocol; energy consumption; monitoring application; network lifetime extension; packet delay; self-powered wireless sensor network; solar panel; survivability; tracking application; Delays; Energy harvesting; Energy states; Prototypes; Routing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOMW.2014.6849184

Filename

6849184