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Balancing the power consumption speed in flat and hierarchical WSN

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A combination of a cluster tree routing protocol and an Ad hoc on demand vector (AODV) routing protocol is used in the latest ZigBee standard wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology. However, the AODV routing protocol has no means by which to take into consideration the power consumption of the nodes during the routing process. Therefore, a new approach is proposed in this paper to balance the power consumption speed and to distribute the responsibilities of routing among flat wireless sensor nodes and the three levels of hierarchical wireless sensor nodes. These three levels are based on the three types of devices, which are used in the ZigBee standard: the coordinator, the routers, and the end devices. In this paper, we have compared the original AODV routing protocol with our extension approach for the distribution of power consumption. Based on the simulation results, our new approach has achieved better performance in terms of increasing the lifetime of the flat wireless sensor network, the personal area network (PAN) coordinator, the routers, and the whole network of the hierarchical wireless sensor network. Additionally, it has better performance in terms of distributing the power consumption among the key nodes of the wireless sensor network.

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    Hesham Abusaimeh & Shuang-Hua Yang

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Hesham Abusaimeh received his B. Sc. degree from Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan, in 2003, and M. Sc. degree from New York Institute of Technology in 2004, both in computer science. He is currently pursuing a Ph. D. in computer science in the field of wireless sensor networks communication and routing protocols in Loughborough University, UK.

His research interests include routing protocols, network lifetime and consumption energy, computer networks, network layers communications, wireless sensor networks, and web applications security.

Shuang-Hua Yang received his B. Sc. in Instrument and Automation, M. Sc. in process control from Beijing Petroleum University (China), in 1983 and 1986 respectively, and his Ph.D. in intelligent systems from Zhejiang University, PRC, in 1991. He is a professor of networks and control. He is the director of the Networks and Control Research Group in the Computer Science Department at Loughborough University, UK. He is also an overseas professor in Central China Normal University and a guest professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Petroleum University (China), and Liaoning University of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, PRC. He is a fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control (FIMC), a senior member of IEEE (SMIEEE) and a chartered engineer (CEng) in the UK. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Systems Science and the International Journal of Automation and Computing. He is also serving as a member of the editorial advisory board for the International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Journal of Measurement and Control, International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, and International Journal of Process System Engineering.

His research interests include wireless sensor networks, networked control, safety critical systems, and real time software maintenance.

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Abusaimeh, H., Yang, SH. Balancing the power consumption speed in flat and hierarchical WSN. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 5, 366–375 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-008-0366-7

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