Dynamic Aggregation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor networks suffer from limited capabilities such as bandwidth, low processing power, and memory size. There is therefore a need for protocols that deliver sensor data in an energy-efficient way to the sink. One of those techniques, it gathers sensors´ data in a small size packet suitable for transmission. In this paper, we propose a new Effective Data Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to reduce the energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which prolongs the network lifetime. This work uses in-network aggregation approach to distribute the processing all over the aggregation path to avoid unbalanced power consumption on specific nodes until they run out. Simulation results prove that DAP, compared to other protocols, achieves more data aggregation percentage and less power consumption for a one data harvesting round.