An energy-efficent routing protocol for WSN-based intelligent mining system

Abstract

In recent years, Wireless sensor network (WSNs) has become the main technology to construct underground network for intelligent mining system. Due to the complex roadway topology, there needs an optimized energy conservation routing protocol. We proposed EERP, an energy-efficient routing protocol for for WSN-based intelligent mining system, which can prolonged lifetime of a network and reduce energy consumption through construct a dominator chain by region partition. Simulation results show that EERP has 8.2 times stable working time than LEACH. When region length is 100m, EERP still can maintain 99% energy after 3000rd transmission.