Development of an Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithm for Long Distant Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure

Abstract

This paper presents the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks in an energy-efficient test-bed to mitigate the undesired consequence of increased energy consumption. The Wireless Network Nodes constitute the main component of Wireless infrastructure and the major contributor to the energy consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks. Therefore, there is a need for a well-designed and planned infrastructure to effectively serve customers to avoid incessant collisions, attacks and shutdowns. This work developed and designed a MATLAB Model for simulation and analysis of the Wireless Sensor Network energy saving that has a functional capacity that lasted an estimated value of 330 rounds of simulation (82.5% energy efficient), unlike the conventional that lasts 120 rounds of simulation (30% energy efficient). Variation in the packet delivery ratio when cluster-based Routing Technique was activated and when it was not activated showed that the packet delivery ratio of 96% was achieved with the Proposed Model as against 64% of the conventional (existing) Model. The Sensor Network lifetime for the proposed technique increased by 52.5% compared to the conventional technique which implied better network performance.