Energy Efficient Schemes for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

Abstract

Conservation of energy is the main design issue in wirelesssensor network (WSN) which is usually available at each node. Althoughdifferent solutions have been introduced for typical wireless networks,cellular networks, MANET, and other short-range wireless local areanetworks, yet they are not often much feasible for a large scale WSN.For this purpose, multiple mobile sink nodes can be deployed to increasethe life of sensor network. The purpose can be achieved by splitting thelife time into equal time interval known as rounds. Similarly, byemploying multiple sink nodes can also make the sensor network moreenergy efficient. Another way to make the sensor network energyefficient is to logically divide the deployment area into static clusters. Byadopting the strategy of static cluster, energy consumption can beminimized. The two major wireless standards used by WSN are 802.15.4and Zigbee [1],[2] .They are low-power protocols. Maximum distance isaround 100m (at 2.4 GHz). However, performance is an issue. In orderto assure the Wireless sensor network (WSN)s survivability and increasethe lifetime of network in such environments, various energy efficiencyschemes have been proposed in the literature. Energy is a valuablecommodity in wireless networks due to the limited battery of the handydevices. The energy problem becomes stiffer in ad-hoc WSN).