Improving on the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks

Felicia Engmann, Jamal Deen Abdulai, Julius Quarshie Azasoo

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Abstract

The application of wireless sensor networks is gradually gaining popularity in ubiquitous computing. They are used for military surveillance, home automation and monitoring, underwater surveillance, wearable sensor and many others. With their way of deployment and use, these tiny motes are mostly vulnerable to attacks and their mode of transfer of data depletes battery power leaving motes dead after a short while. In this paper an algorithm that can be used to minimize the energy consumed by sensor nodes communicating over multihop links is proposed. The algorithm employs unequal clustering technique taking into consideration the distance of the motes from the base station. Our algorithm considers a base station with sparsely distributed nodes that may not all receive adequate signal strength from the base station. Intuitive performance analysis of the proposed algorithm was done in comparison with EEUC and EAUCF considering their energy metrics and clustering techniques. From the preliminary results obtain, our algorithm performs better than the others and hence more stable and energy efficient clustering algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015
EditorsSanjay Misra, Bernady O. Apduhan, Marina L. Gavrilova, D. Taniar, Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages87-91
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467373678
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jul 2015
Event15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015 - Banff
Duration: 22 Jun 201525 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff
Period22/06/1525/06/15

Keywords

  • Competition Radius
  • Residual Energy
  • Unequal Clustering
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
  • multihop
  • singlehop

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