Routing algorithm for optimal lifetime of wireless sensor network
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Date
2010Author
Okiro, Joseph Onyango
Type
ThesisLanguage
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Advances in wireless sensor networks have led to many new routing protocols
specifically designed for sensor networks where energy awareness is an essential
consideration. Routing in wireless sensor networks has received increasing
attention and research in recent years whereas most routing protocols concentrate
on finding and maintaining routes in the face of changing topology caused by
mobility or other environmental changes. The nodes in wireless sensor network
have limited initial amounts of energy that are consumed at different rates while
forwarding, receiving and processing messages and the intended receiver which
can be more than one hop away. Energy aware routing protocols and algorithms
have been developed to address the issue of limited energy of the nodes in a
wireless sensor networks. These energy aware routing protocols tries to ensure that
the time until the batteries of the nodes drain-out is maximized. This project
considers and examines energy aware routing algorithms with the goal of
establishing one which maximizes the lifetime of a wireless sensor network. The
comparison is performed by evaluating and modeling the routing algorithms and
verifying the performance through simulation.
Publisher
School of Computing and Informatics
Description
MSc