Minimizing energy consumption within wireless sensors networks
F. Shebli, Iyad Dayoub, Jean-Michel Rouvaen · 2007
The use of sensor networks should keep developing, mainly in such fields as scientific, logistic, military or healthcare applications. However, sensor size represents a significant limitation mainly in terms of energy autonomy and therefore of life period, for the batteries have to be too tiny. This is the reason why intensive research is being conducted nowadays on how to control sensor energy consumption within a network, taking communications into account as a priority. For this purpose we propose a method to calculate energy consumption within linear wireless sensor networks, according to the data flow rate, the number of nodes and the distance between them. Furthermore, we have succeeded in reducing energy consumption within linear sensor networks made up with nodes featuring differing data flow rates.