Energy-aware-based routing protocol for wireless sensor network

In allusion to defects in routing protocol for WSN, such as high packet loss rate, high energy-consumption and others, an energy-aware-based routing protocol for WSN is proposed. Firstly, in the process of establishing the data forwarding route, the node energy-aware mechanism is introduced, and node of larger residual energy is chosen as the next hop node to prevent node of smaller residual energy to be involved in building of routing. Then in working process of node, the periodic and asynchronous work / sleep mechanism is introduced to save energy cost of node. Finally, simulation comparison experiment of used to test the performance of routing protocol. Experimental results show that the proposed routing protocol has reduced packet loss rate of network data forwarding and has improved the energy consumption of sensor node. © 2016, UK Simulation Society. All rights reserved.