Maximum Life-time Broadcast protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Zhao, Ruiqin ; Shen, Xiaohong ; Zhang, Xiaomin ; Hou, Jianpeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

11

fYear

2010

fDate

22-24 Oct. 2010

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consist of thousands of low-cost sensor nodes that are densely deployed. Broadcasting is a method that allows nodes in WSN to share their data efficiently. Due to the limited energy supply of each sensor node, it has become a crucial issue to maximize the network life-time in the design of broadcast protocols. In this paper, we propose an efficient broadcast protocol-Maximum Life-time Broadcast (MLB) for WSN. It optimizes broadcasting by reducing redundant rebroadcasts and balancing the energy consumption among all nodes. MLB uses the number of neighbors that have not yet received the broadcast packet to measure a node´s rebroadcast efficiency. High efficient rebroadcasts will help to reduce the number of rebroadcasts and thus reduce the broadcast overhead of MLB. Simulation results show that MLB can prolong the network life-time of WSN effectively and it is scalable with respect to network size and node density.

Keywords

protocols; wireless sensor networks; broadcast overhead; broadcast packet; energy consumption; maximum lifetime broadcast protocol; network lifetime; network size; node density; rebroadcast efficiency; sensor nodes; wireless sensor networks; Ad hoc networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Broadcasting; Floods; Protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; broadcast; energy; life time; sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Application and System Modeling (ICCASM), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taiyuan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7235-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7237-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCASM.2010.5623171

Filename

5623171