Scalability analysis of homogeneous broad transmission distance protocol (HM-BTDP) for energy efficient communication in wireless sensor networks

A wireless sensor network collects information by sensing and gathering through sensor nodes in a continuous or discrete manner which makes them application specific. Stability period and network lifetime are key issues to judge and analyse the working of the sensor nodes and the efficiency of the sensor network system for a long time. Designing energy efficient multitasking clustering protocols for data collection and supporting event based applications in various environments is the main goal for the researchers. This paper proposes a protocol based on broad and crossover transmission distance for homogeneous sensor network system and effect of various scales such as the number of nodes and different initial energies of all the nodes on it. Homogeneous broad transmission distance protocol (HM-BTDP) is put forward for event-specific and field-specific applications where sub-periods of lifetime are also important along with stability period and entire span of the network. Performance parameters for evaluation are alive nodes metrics depicting that this protocol outperforms the previous existing homogeneous protocols and thus enhancing network energy efficiency.