Localized energy efficient routing for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

With the evolution of electronics, wireless sensor networks have been very popular in many domains of human life such as health, industry and military. This popularity has taken the attention on to the researches about wireless sensor networks. Wireless Sensor Networks are especially very favorable in conditions where it is physically difficult and dangerous for human being to gather information. Therefore, lifetime of those networks must be prolonged as much as possible, since it will be also infeasible to replace the energy depleted sensors with the new ones deployed in such geographical areas that are difficult and dangerous for human being to enter. In this paper, we present a localized energy aware routing method LEERA-MS and an alternative LEERA-MS-TH method that are used incorporation with an energy efficient sleep-wakeup schedule which is included with pipelining mechanism we have proposed before. Employing multiple sinks improve the performance by providing the fairly distribution of the load. Simulation results show that this routing method applied on a multiple sinks topology when employed together with the pipelined sleep-wakeup schedule provides 40% longer lifetime for wireless sensor networks.