Neighboring Load Balancing Approach in Grid Wireless Sensor Network

As Sensor area network is a vast network with thousands of nodes, the workload increases up to a great exten t. Wireless sensor networks are increasingly gaining importance in various time critical applications. As a sensor node has fix power to work on, when the load exceeds its threshold value, it starts behaving abnormally and starts packet as well as energ y loss while the corner nodes are underutilized. This uneven load distribution results in heavily loaded nodes to discharge fas ter as compared to others. This causes few over-utilized nodes which fail and result in formation of holes in network, resulting in increase of failed messages in the network. This increased workload leads to increase in packet loss and decrease in network lifetime. Even the rate of message failure as well as node failure due to network congestion also increases. In order to avoi d such problems and enhance the network lifetime, we are introducing a new algorithm for the purpose of load balanc ing i.e. Neighboring Load Balancing. Neighboring Load Balancing is a type of load balancing approach in which load has to be distributed on neighboring nodes instead of central nodes in which an All to All communication mode has been assumed. In this, the load is distributed on all those neighboring nodes which are in coverage area of central node.