Residual-Energy Aware Modeling and Analysis of Time-Varying Wireless Sensor Networks
Zhaoming Ding, Lianfeng Shen, Hongyang Chen, Feng Yan, Nirwan Ansari · IEEE Communications Letters · 2021
In this letter, the residual-energy aware feature of a sensor node in time-varying wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is analyzed and modeled as a Markov chain, upon which the state-transition probability (STP) about the energy level of any node with undetermined and deterministic residual energy can be evaluated. Based on Markov chain and energy-efficient relay search region models, an energy-efficient routing algorithm is proposed to further analyze the impact of STP with known residual energy on extending network lifetime of time-varying WSNs. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively extend network lifetime even more than twice while holding a better energy efficiency as compared with the algorithm without considering node-residual energy changes.