Title: Research and design of a low-power wireless sensor networks

Authors: Zhijun Gao; Hongyu Wang; Chunyan Xue; Zhonghua Han

Addresses: School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China; Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, 110168, China ' School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China ' Shenyang Metrology Testing Institution, Shenyang, 110179, China ' Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, 110168, China

Abstract: It is studied, in this paper, the cluster-based network architecture combined with multi-hop transformation and a hop-number-constrained multi-hop routing (HMR) algorithm is proposed. This new scheme is designed to prolong the network lifetime in which the maximum hop-number is considered in order to enhance the stability of the communication from sensor nodes to base station. Meanwhile, nodes with higher residual energy undertake more tasks of relaying information so as to balance the energy consumption in the network. Simulation results show that this new scheme provides longer lifetime than the classical clustering algorithms, and HMR also reaches larger amount of effective messages.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; low-power WSNs; routing algorithms; hop-number-constrained; wireless networks; network design; network lifetime; energy consumption; simulation; clustering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2013.056186

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2013 Vol.20 No.2, pp.139 - 147

Published online: 27 Sep 2014 *

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