Efficient Forwarding With Power Saving and Load Balancing In Wireless Sensor Networks
Hanen Idoudi · International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking · 2013
Energy efficiency is still a challenging issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Balancing nodes’ activities and duty cycling are efficient ways that could enhance WSN’s performances. In this paper the authors introduce a new asynchronous power saving mechanism that provides an adaptive duty cycle and a minimum overhead to achieve load balancing and energy saving. This mechanism relies on two basic functions: an asynchronous duty cycling for activity balancing and a lightweight geographic routing. Extensive simulations showed the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of residual energy, energy consumption balancing and packet delivery ratio.