Title:Delay Aware and Lifetime Enhanced Sectoring (DALES) Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network
VOLUME: 10 ISSUE: 2
Author(s):Suniti Dutt*, Nikita Shandil, Sunil Agrawal and Renu Vig
Affiliation:University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, University Institute of Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Keywords:Delay, energy-efficiency, heterogeneity, optimization, sectoring, wireless sensor networks.
Abstract:
Background & Objective: Wireless communication technologies are continually growing
in diverse areas, which are providing unexampled research opportunities in the areas of networking.
One such speedily developing orbit is Wireless Sensor Networks. The ability of these networks to
operate in human-inaccessible terrains and hazardous locations have attracted a lot of research for
addressing various difficulties presented by these networks at different layers. Routing is a challenge
due to the unpredictable topology of WSNs. Further, there exists a wide range of applications employing
WSNs which operate in a hostile environment. The presence of a hostile environment literally
means that the operating devices fail quite frequently and it is practically infeasible to repair them
and replenish their energy resources. Further, many real-time applications of WSN do not tolerate
any latency in the network. In general, designing an energy-efficient routing scheme that can tradeoff
between different design metrics, like delay, is a crucial issue in WSNs. Due to a great deal of
speculations and future prognoses regarding the Internet of Things, WSN design faces various design
goals that often conflict with each other, such as short delay, high throughput, minimal energy consumption,
and low cost. Network design for futuristic applications must consider many factors for
achieving trade-offs among multiple objectives to achieve optimal performance for network.
Methods: This paper proposes a routing protocol named Delay Aware and Lifetime Enhanced Sectoring
(DALES) for joint optimization of lifetime and delay in a heterogeneous WSN. It alters the
CH selection process by sectoring the WSN field, barring certain nodes from participating in clustering
and selecting an optimal number of CHs by use of modified probability equations.
Conclusion: Simulation results establish that proposed solution ameliorates in terms of network lifetime
and delay as compared to other routing protocols.
