A New Energy Efficient Hierarchical Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

• Published in: Wireless personal communications Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 269 - 286
• Main Author: Dener, Murat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-07-2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Energy efficiency; Engineering; Manufacturing; Networks; Power efficiency; Power supplies; Protocol; Protocol (computers); Remote sensors; Sensors; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Sleep; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks; Hierarchical routing protocol; Energy efficiency
• ISSN: 0929-6212; 1572-834X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11277-018-5687-4

Wireless sensor networks consist of low cost sensor nodes which have limited power supplies, memory capacity, processing capability and transmission rate. Sensor nodes gather information from the environment and send the collected information to base station with help of a routing cooperation. Because of limited resources in Wireless Sensor Networks, fulfilling these routing operations is a major problem. Routing protocols are used to perform these operations. The most important thing by considering while these protocols are designed is energy efficiency. Because wireless sensor networks are widely used in intelligent systems, the energy efficiency of these networks is very important in IoT. Researchers have proposed several hierarchical routing protocols such as LEACH, PEGASIS, TEEN and APTEEN. In this study, an energy efficient routing protocol is developed which is more efficient than currently avaliable routing protocols. The developed protocol involves mapping of the network, sleep–wake/load balancing, data merge processes. The proposed protocol gives better results than other protocols in number of surviving nodes and amount of energy consumed criterias.