Zone-based Energy Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Rajan Sharma
Balwinder Singh Sohi
Nitin Mittal

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel zone or grid-based network deployment framework for energy efficient selection and reselection process of Zone-Head (ZH) in the WSNs. The proposed zone head reselection process ensures energy efficiency, load balancing, and stability which further prolongs the network lifetime. Instead of carrying out periodic reselection of Zone-Head (ZH) that leads to extra energy consumption and network overhead, the protocol dynamically initiates the process of reselection based on residual energy level of ZH. In the proposed approach the process is segregated into four phases; deployment phase, the zone formation phase, zone head selection phase, data transmission phase and reselection phase. We implemented the proposed algorithm in MATLAB and its result outcomes reveal that the proposed method outperforms the competitive algorithms for parameters such as load balancing, total energy consumption and network lifetime.

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Balwinder Singh Sohi, CGC Group of Colleges

Dr. B.S. Sohi has received his degrees of B.Sc Engineering, Master of Engineering & Ph.D in Electronics in years 1971, 1981, 1992 from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is the Ex- Director of UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh and presently he is working as Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at CGC Group of Colleges, Mohali, Punjab. He is having experience of 35 years in teaching and administration. He has 105 research publications in various fields. His areas of research are wireless networking, computer networking and wireless sensor networks

Nitin Mittal, Chandigarh University

Nitin Mittal, received his B.Tech and M.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India in 2006 and 2009 respectively. He has completed his Ph. D in ECE from Chandigarh University, Mohali, India in 2017. He is presently working as Associate Professor in ECE Department at Chandigarh University, Mohali, India. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and Soft Computing.