An energy aware routing protocol for mixed static and mobile nodes in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • Adel Gaafar A. Elrahim;Hussein A. Elsayed;Salwa El Ramly;Magdy M. Ibrahim

  • Affiliations:

  • Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th Communications and Networking Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks, a distributed network of sensor nodes perform critical tasks in many application areas such as target tracking in military applications, detection of catastrophic events, environment monitoring, health applications etc. The routing protocols developed for these distributed sensor networks need to be energy efficient and scalable. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient data forwarding protocol called Energy Aware Geographic Routing Protocol (EAGRP) for wireless sensor networks to extend the life time of the network. The proposed protocol is an efficient and energy conservative routing technique for multi-hop wireless sensor networks. The significance of this study is that there has been a very limited investigation of the effect of mobility models on routing protocol performance in Wireless Sensor Network. We have considered the influence random waypoint mobility models on the performance of EAGRP routing protocol. The performance measures have been analyzed with variable number of nodes. Our simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm gives better performance in terms of higher packet delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption, routing overhead, and delay.