Impact of Duplicates in Energy Consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks Using the GSP Protocol

Author

Calle, Maria ; Kabara, Joseph

Author_Institution

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 May 2009

Firstpage

446

Lastpage

448

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks which employ a routing protocol from the Flooding family are often assumed to waste a great amount of energy generating duplicate packets . Simulations were conducted showing that the assumption is not true for one member of the flooding family, the gossip-based sleep protocol (GSP). Simulation results show that the performance of GSP in 100-node square grid networks eliminates the risk of packet explosion while retaining the benefits of a flooding protocol. The paper also presents a novel energy consumption analysis, revealing that the majority of energy is used for idle listen, when there are no packet transmissions.

Keywords

energy consumption; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; Flooding family; energy consumption analysis; flooding protocol; gossip-based sleep protocol; routing protocol; square grid networks; wireless sensor networks; Blindness; Communication networks; Electronic mail; Energy consumption; Explosions; Floods; Routing protocols; Sleep; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; Energy Consumption; Routing; Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2009. CNSR '09. Seventh Annual

Conference_Location

Moncton, NB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4155-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3649-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNSR.2009.80

Filename

4939168