Signal Strength Analysis for Optimal Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Vespa, Lucas ; Mei, Keqian ; Maitree, Rapeepan ; Weng, Ning

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper explores methods with which to use wireless signal properties to calculate the distance between wireless sensor nodes, as well as how to use this information to estimate transmission power consumption and ultimately calculate an optimum information routing path for nodes in a wireless sensor network. A method for increasing the accuracy of wireless distance calculation using a so called "Environment Coefficient" is also introduced. Our results have demonstrated the feasibility that our location aware sensor nodes can automatically determine power efficient routing paths by detecting received signal strength.

Keywords

telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; environment coefficient; location aware sensor; optimal routing; optimum information routing path; signal strength analysis; transmission power consumption; wireless distance calculation; wireless sensor networks; Computer network management; Energy consumption; Global Positioning System; Military computing; Monitoring; Portable computers; Routing; Signal analysis; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Region 5 Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2076-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2077-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562721

Filename

4562721