IMPROVING ENERGY CONSUMPTION SAVING IN LONG DISTANCE WSN INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING USING ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION ROUTING ALGORITHM

Summary

The growing demand for ubiquitous connectivity and new services in communication technology comes with an undesired consequence of increasing energy consumption. The nodes are the main components of a wireless sensor network WSN infrastructure and contributes majorly to the energy consumption of the network. Therefore, there is need for a well-designed and planned infrastructure to effectively serve customers to avoid incessant collisions and attacks. In this paper a cluster-based hierarchical routing algorithm with error detection and correction for detecting corrupted packets and aborting re-transmission, thereby improving energy savings of WSN, and prolonging the nodes lifetime was developed. Based on targeted 400 rounds of packets signal transmissions the performance of the algorithm was extensively tested. Whereas the conventional technique (non-hierarchical) has functional capacity that lasted 120 rounds of simulation during transmission (30% energy efficient), the developed technique lasted till an estimated value of 330 rounds of simulation during transmission (82.5% energy efficient). In packets delivery ratio evaluation criterion, the developed model achieved packet delivery ratio of 96% while the conventional model achieved 64%. The sensor network lifetime for the developed technique increased by 52.5% compared to the conventional technique, which implied better network performance. The contribution to knowledge is that a new routing algorithm incorporating error detection and correction scheme is a very reliable energy saving algorithm for long distance WSN infrastructure monitoring. Recommended for deployment to both ad-hoc and non-ad-hoc networks where a collection of wireless sensor nodes is part of as it will reduce energy consumption in those nodes.

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