An Energy Efficient Quadrant Based Position Responsive Routing Protocol

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network is the network with highly constrained resource where consumption of energy plays a major part of the concern. In the proposed research, a quadrant based zonal design methodology is adopted to reduce energy consumption of nodes in sensing field using the protocol named “Quadrant based position responsive protocol” (QPRP). QPRP is framed to reduce Energy consumption of each sensor node in sensing field by 1) having a quadrant-based cluster design to forward data to quadrant head and 2) reducing the average distance from quadrant head to Base station or sink node. The performance of proposed QPRP is analysed in terms of average energy consumed per packet with the pre-existing protocols named ES3 (Efficient Sink selection scheme) (Modified ETSP (Energy efficient tree based self-organizing Protocol) and PRRP (Position Responsive Routing Protocol). The result proved the proposed QPRP is energy efficient and increases the lifetime of the Sensor Network.