Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2015/v8i17/68660
Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: 17, Pages: 1-7
Original Article
R. Balamurali 1* and K. Kathiravan2
1 Department of CSE, IFHE (The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education), Hyderabad - 501203, India; [email protected]
2 Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, Chennai - 600089, India; [email protected]
Background: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an interconnected connection of two or more sensor nodes. A typical sensor node can perform Sensing, Computing and Communication.Objective: The core objective of this paper is to mitigate or to reduce the impact of the Hotspot effect in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) by using a refined integrated MAC and Routing protocol and a quantification algorithm. Methods/Analysis: We are using a refined integrated MAC and routing protocol which divides the network into tiers. We also propose a quantification algorithm, which decides the optimum number of nodes in each tier to mitigate the hot-spot problem. The work is simulated in NS2. Findings: We simulated our work in NS2 and found that the proposed quantification algorithm along with Refined Integrated MAC and Routing Protocol outperforms SMAC in terms of network lifetime. Conclusion: The proposed protocol along with quantification algorithm increases the network life time and reduces the impact of the hotspot effect when compared with conventional MAC protocols.
Keywords: Hotspot Problem, Integrated MAC and Routing, Quantification Algorithm, Sink, WSN
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