Investigation of the effects of compression and flow balancing in wireless sensor networks lifetime

Since wireless sensor networks operate at remote locations under harsh conditions with no infrastructure the constraints imposed on the energy dissipation have vital impact on the overall system lifetime. There are studies on the effective utilization of the sensors´ energies to increase the network lifetime. In this study we investigated strategies to increase network lifetime by considering both flow balancing and data compression. Our results reveal that different data compression and flow balancing strategies result in network lifetimes with significant variations.