Reliable path and minimum energy communication by using cooperative protocol in wireless networks
R. Madhanmohan, N. Poorani · 2013
In cooperative networks, each node in the routing path recruits the neighboring nodes to transmit and receive the data to assist in communication. It forms a cluster at transmitting and receiving ends and transmission link between these two clusters. This paper proposes a new reliable and energy efficient protocol to establish a cluster at the receiver end, before receiving the data. The end-to-end robustness of the protocol to data-packet loss, along with the trade-off between energy consumption and error rate is analyzed here. The analysis results are used to compare to end-to-end robustness and energy savings of our new protocol with two schemes such as one non-cooperative and one another cooperative scheme named as CAN-I. Cooperative nodes establish a wireless network for transferring, processing and monitoring the data developing an energy efficient routing protocol to increase the overall lifetime of the networks.