CREAT: Cluster Based Routing Using Energy Aware Technique for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless sensor nodes have four major parts which are microcontroller, Memory, Antenna and a battery. Wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes are highly dependent on batteries in many computational applications. Due to its unattended and far distant deployment, replenishment of battery is almost impossible. So, any designed application and algorithm for this energy constraint technology of wireless sensor network should be energy aware. Communicating the sensed data from the source node to the base station that is generally known as routing is the core functionality in this deployed network and for minimum utilization of a battery we need an optimal path from source to destination. Lessening the broadcasting, decreasing computation and packet overhead add better role in the energy conservation. In this research work, we targeted this issue of energy conservation for the routing functionality in WSN from the aforementioned energy conservation factors. Our proposed algorithm, CREAT (Cluster Based Routing Using Energy Aware Technique for Wireless Sensor Network) has achieved this goal of prolonging the network life time by lessening the broadcasting, decreasing the computation and by adapting the novel way of transferring the cluster head to the most suitable node in the cluster. It is intuited from the initial derived results through the simulation in NS2, that Energy aware routing (CREAT) algorithm performs better in overall network life time, end to end delay and Network Energy Consumption