Rectangular Grids Design to Balance Power Consumption for Homogeneous Sensor Networks with High Node Density

HYREP: A Hybrid Low-Power Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, a new hybrid routing protocol is presented for low power Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The new system uses an integrated piezoelectric energy harvester to increase the network lifetime. Power dissipation is one of the most important factors affecting lifetime of a WSN. An innovative cluster head selection technique using Cuckoo optimization algorithm has been used in the desig...

Modeling of Node Energy Consumption for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy consumption is the core issue in wireless sensor networks (WSN). To generate a node energy model that can accurately reveal the energy consumption of sensor nodes is an extremely important part of protocol development, system design and performance evaluation in WSNs. In this paper, by studying component energy consumption in different node states and within state transitions, the author...

A New Method for Clustering Wireless Sensor Networks to Improve the Energy Consumption

Clustering is an effective approach for managing nodes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). A new method of clustering mechanism with using Binary Gravitational Search Algorithm (BGSA) in WSN, is proposed in this paper to improve the energy consumption of the sensor nodes. Reducing the energy consumption of sensors in WSNs is the objective of this paper that is through selecting the sub optimum se...

Minimizing Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks

Power consumption among sensors has always and will continue to be an issue among developers and deployers of such devices. Wireless sensor networks are even more power draining because they utilize a wireless radio communications device which requires more power than any other items on the sensor. This paper discusses some of the previous schemes to reduce power consumption through planning or...

Power consumption Assessment in Wireless Sensor Networks