Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Network Using Network Coding Based Multipath Routing Protocol For Multicast Network

Network Coding is most promising aspect of WSN. This Network Coding method is combined with multipath routing protocol to form NCMR protocol.(network coding based multipath routing protocol).This protocol is used to obtain energy efficient wireless sensor network.. These protocol leads to decrease the number of constrain routes & the total time of transmission. This protocol is applied on unicast and multicast network separately. And comparison is done with traditional multipath routing protocol for same unicast and multicast network. Simulation result shows energy consumption of NCMR multicast is lower than NCMR unicast and also than TMR unicast as well as multicast. This work is proved by the simulation analysis results. The used multipath model is based on braided multipath routing, and the network coding method is random linear network coding (practical network coding). In braided network multiple paths to the sink nodes are created for each source node, and the packets encoded at source nodes are transmitted through the braided multipath network model. Then, intermediate nodes re-encode these received packets and transfer these new packets to next cluster. Finally, the multiple sink nodes decode the packets received from different paths and recover the original data. Results of the analysis show that multicast NCMR provides more reliability. We compare multicast NCMR routing protocol with NCMR unicast & also with traditional multipath routing protocol for unicast and multicast networks, in terms of the packet loss, energy consumption, successful delivery ratio & end to end delay when a packet is transmitted Some special simulations are carried out specially for NCMR multicast i.e. effect of number of nodes on energy consumption, packet loss & end to end delay.