Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 12 - Volume 13
The Critical Transmitting Range for Connectivity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Asymptotic critical transmission radius for greedy forward routing in wireless ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
An Energy Efficient Regional Partitioned Clustering Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
ICINIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Conference on Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are recently attracting a lot of interest due to their low cost. They are rapidly replacing the wired data acquisition systems due to the ability to use them in benign environments. However, WSNs suffer from many constraints, including low computation capability, small memory, susceptibility to physical capture, the lack of infrastructure and limited energy resources which imposes unique challenges. One of the methods to improve the coverage of a WSN is to introduce multiple hops between the source and destination. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the effect of multiple hops on network lifetime and the energy consumption in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Network lifetime can be defined as the maximum time for which the network is able to successfully transmit data from the source to the sink, using all possible alternate routes. It has been shown that as the network lifetime increases, the percentage energy consumption decreases with increase in the number of hops and gradually saturates at critical hops.