Lifetime Enhancement of Wireless Sensor Networks by Differentiable Node Density Deployment

Abstract

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is composed of wireless sensors using batteries with energy constraints, which limits the network lifetime. How to maximize the network lifetime is an important issue in the design of WSNs. We establish a relationship between node density and network lifetime in a periodically data delivery scenario of WSNs with sensors transmitting data to the sink node periodically. Based on our analysis, we propose a sensor node density deployment method that could implement a differential node density in WSNs so that the lifetime of the network could be maximized. Both theoretic analysis and simulation results show that our method outperforms the uniform node distribution method in terms of the network lifetime