The reducing of energy consumption for various nodes in wireless sensor networks
plays an important and essential role in the prolonging of the life of these networks. In
order not to be the energy consumption in some node is very high and in other
s is less or
very low, the choice of distribution algorithms of the nodes role, as a router node or
terminal nodes, and switching between them, plays an important role in prolonging the
lifetime of wireless sensor networks.
This paper presents an algorithm for the distribution of WSN nodes roles, including
allowing the applying of many tree patterns to a single network. This offers the potential to
alter the network nodes roles centrally by coordinator and switching between these tree
patterns whenever the need arises according to the indicators of energy consumption in the
nodes. The results show that the use of the algorithm leads to a significant improvement in
the network life ranges between 2 and 4 times, according to the allowing the nodes to sleep
and wakeup, or not, for different transmission rates where the scenarios have been tested
for ZigBee based wireless sensors networks using NS-2 simulator.
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have applications in many different areas of life, such as health care, environmental monitoring, and military and economic areas and in industrial automation and many other applications.
The development of these net
works and the improvement of their performance occupy an important place of interest in research centers and specialized scientific institutes. The interest in these structures as a way to improve the performance of these networks leads to good results in this area. The cluster structure is one of the most important structures that have received increasing attention over recent years.
This research suggested a modification of the structure of the cluster tree WSN dividing clusters into sub-groups, and each group of these sub-groups operates like a tree from a small amount of nodes. The results that have been obtained by means of simulation indicate a significant improvement in terms of reducing energy consumption and thus an increase in the lifetime of the network, as compared to traditional cluster tree WSN. But that was at the expense of slightly lower rates of transmission and delivery ratio in the nodes of these networks. This leads us to recommend using this method to build the networks used to monitor protected agriculture and other networks with low transmission rates.
