Title: Grey prediction-based energy-aware opportunistic routing in WSN

Authors: S. Nagadivya; R. Manoharan

Addresses: Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India ' Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India

Abstract: Opportunistic routing (OR) protocol is widely applied for wireless sensor network (WSN) for maximising energy as well as network lifetime. OR selects the capable forwarder set of node for multi-hop forwarding, based on residual energy and transaction history. This selection process using the forwarding set will continue for every hop, till the destination is reached. This paper proposes a new routing protocol, namely grey prediction-based energy-aware OR protocol for WSN. The grey-prediction model is a proven model which needs minimum data for prediction and is used to select the nodes for the forwarding set used in every hop. The new protocol is simulated and compared with existing ones for performances. The observations suggested that the advocated protocol shows superior performance as against the already accepted protocols about network lifetime, throughput, and energy consumed and remaining.

Keywords: opportunistic routing; wireless sensor network; WSN; grey prediction; energy efficiency.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2023.127479

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2023 Vol.29 No.1, pp.95 - 111

Received: 10 Nov 2021
Accepted: 26 Jan 2022
Published online: 06 Dec 2022 *