An enhanced routing mechanism for energy reduction in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In the recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are treated as one of the emerging fields in the network communication. In WSNs, routing protocols are considered as the major issue and it is framed as the NP hard problem. Though, many routing mechanism are proposed, still there are some research issues to be addressed. In this paper, we are considering the reduction of consumption as the objective function for the proposed routing protocol. The proposed routing protocol considers the Quality value (Q-Value) of the nodes for packet forwarding. The Q-value is calculated based on the battery life and cost of the node. Based on 1058 T. Sunil Kumar Reddy et al. the Q-value, the cluster head (CH) is selected automatically. The proposed protocol is evaluated based on the objectives such as network lifetime, packet delivery and energy consumption.