Global routing with energy balancing in intra-vehicular environment

Global routing in vehicular sensor networks is considered with the aim of balancing energy consumption across the nodes to achieve longer network lifetime. To this end, a routing protocol based on Dijkstra´s routing algorithm with an augmented link cost function is used. Performance of the routing protocol is evaluated using a hardware experimental setup comprising 8 nodes positioned throughout the car and an access point placed near the dashboard. Real-time experiments implementing the routing algorithm are performed. Results demonstrate efficient balancing of energy consumption across all nodes in the network and a substantial increase in network lifetime.