Energy balancing in cooperative sensor networks

Abstract

Many routing strategies have been proposed to reduce the implementation complexity of multihop sensor networks. Specifically, a combination of routing scheme and cooperative variety by considering a realistic channel model is considered and the energy constraints is applied to the existing routing strategies. The proposed strategy, by considering energy parameters, balances energy consumption among relays considerably. Simulation results indicate that the End-to-End outage of presented energy balancing method is less than the ad-hoc approach and the useful lifetime of the network significantly increases.