Exploiting addresses correlation to maximize lifetime of IPv6 cluster-based WSNs

Improving the network lifetime is an important design criterion for wireless sensor networks. To achieve this goal, we propose in this paper a novel approach which applies source-coding on addresses in heterogeneous IPv6 Cluster-based wireless sensor network. We formulate the problem of maximizing the network lifetime when Slepian-wolf coding is applied on addresses in network composed of line-powered and battery-powered sensors. This problem optimizes the placement of line-powered sensors to enable the battery-powered ones to exploit the addresses correlation and reduce the size of their emitted packets and thus improve the network lifetime. The numerical results show that a significant network lifetime improvement can be achieved (about 25% in typical scenario).