ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN PERPETUAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

This paper investigates the amount of energy consumed in different configuration
for perpetual wireless sensor networks. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent an area
of networking that become pivotal in many applications. The use of WSNs for the monitoring
of environments, habitats as well as systems within industry and healthcare has made WSNs
a crucial area of research within recent years. The principles behind WSNs involve the
deployment of remote sensing and relay nodes, able to collect and transmit raw data for
processing. Applications such as remote environmental monitoring present new challenges
such as the prospect of developing networks that can operate perpetually to collect data for
as long as possible. Simulation and theoretical analysis were done using the networking
simulator DENSE. DENSE is presented to provide insight into what protocols and energy
saving techniques can be employed to establish the possible feasibility of constructing
PWSN. The results show that mesh is the most realistic due to its energy distribution and
optimization over a large area for a great number of nodes; however, a small single hop
based network can provide good result for energy consumption and packet success rates.