Concepts for Designing Low Power Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks have been used in wide areas of application and become an attractive area for researchers in recent years. Because of the limited energy storage capability of sensor nodes, Energy consumption is one of the most challenging aspects of these networks and different strategies and protocols deals with this area. This paper presents general methods for designing low power wireless sensor network. Different sources of energy consumptions in these networks are discussed here and techniques for alleviating the consumption of energy are presented.

Authors:

• Bahareh Gholamzadeh
• Hooman Nabovati

Keywords:

• Energy consumption
• MAC protocol
• Routing protocol
• Sensor node
• Topology control
• Wireless sensor network.

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