Title: Prolonging network lifetime and balancing network energy in multi-domain WSNs

Authors: Dongwei Guo; Yunna Wu; Lisai Cao; MingHai Wang; Bin Wang

Addresses: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China ' College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; Network Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China ' College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China ' Network Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China ' Network Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Abstract: The multi-domain wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a set of single network co-exist in the same physical location by different authorities. Since nodes in the networks are often battery-limited, the maximisation of network lifetime and the efficiency of balancing energy are important design criterions. In this paper, we present a modified topology control protocol which combines the critical transmitting range (CTR) and K-neigh topology control strategy. The new algorithm binary network route algorithm based on price, energy and location technology (BiPEL) is proposed using credit incentive. The results show that the BiPEL algorithm improves the network lifetime and makes the balance of network energy more efficiently. It is also learned that the network lifetime of multi-domain networks is not positive correlation with the cooperation rate.

Keywords: multi-domain WSNs; wireless sensor networks; routing algorithms; network lifetime; energy consumption; topology control; critical transmitting range; CTR; price; location; credit incentives; cooperation rate.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2016.076725

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2016 Vol.20 No.4, pp.209 - 218

Accepted: 27 Jun 2015
Published online: 23 May 2016 *

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