Title: An energy-efficient routing scheme by using GPS information for wireless sensor networks

Authors: Byungseok Kang; Hyunseung Choo

Addresses: Department of Data Science, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440-746, Korea

Abstract: A wireless sensor network (WSN) (or IoT network) is a collection of distributed nodes. These nodes gather data from various sensors and relay that information to a central point through a wireless network. Therefore, the data can be aggregated and have something useful done with it. These types of networks deal primarily with the transmission of small amounts of data that needs to be sent very efficiently. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient routing algorithm based on the global positioning system (GPS) information. Proposed scheme track the destination's location based on the beacon messages of the main route nodes. Through the experiments, proposed scheme shows improvements in the data packet delivery ratio and reduces the amount of routing control message overhead compared with existing routing protocols such as energy-efficient ant-based routing algorithm (EEABR) and ladder diffusion.

Keywords: energy-efficient routing; GPS; global positioning system; energy efficiency; WSN; wireless sensor network.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2018.089264

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2018 Vol.26 No.2, pp.136 - 143

Received: 19 Jan 2016
Accepted: 22 Aug 2016
Published online: 11 Jan 2018 *

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