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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Optimal Ratio of Direct/Multi-Hop Forwarding for Network Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jeong-Jun SUH, Young Yong KIM

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In this letter, we discuss a forwarding method for maximizing network lifetime, which combines multi-hop forwarding and direct forwarding with a direct/multi-hop forwarding ratio of each sensor node. The direct forwarding ratio refers to the forwarding amount ratio of sensor nodes' own data directly towards a sink node in one packet/instance data generation rate. We tackle an optimization problem to determine the direct forwarding ratio of each sensor node, maximizing network lifetime, as well as nearly guaranteeing energy consumption balancing characteristics. The optimization problem is tackled through the Lagrange multiplier approach. We found that the direct forwarding ratio is overall inversely proportional to the increase of node index in h < i ≤ N case. Finally, we compare energy consumption and network lifetime of the proposed forwarding method with other existing forwarding methods. The numerical results show that the proposed forwarding method balances energy consumption in most of the sensor nodes, comparing with other existing forwarding methods, such as multi-hop forwarding and direct forwarding. The proposed forwarding method also maximizes network lifetime.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.10 pp.1861-1864
Publication Date
2010/10/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.1861
Type of Manuscript
LETTER
Category
Mobile Information Network and Personal Communications

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