Energy-efficient communication protocols for wireless networks

A wireless network (WN) is a distributed system where each node is a small hand-held commodity device called a station. Wireless sensor networks have received increasing interest in recent years due to their usage in monitoring and data collection in a wide variety of environments like remote geographic locations, industrial plants, toxic locations or even office buildings. One of the most important issues related to a WN is its energy constraints. A station is usually powered by a battery which cannot be recharged while on a mission. Hence, any protocol run by a WN should be energy-efficient. We design energy-efficient protocols for one-to-one communication on a single channel and k-channel wireless network. Our protocols can be extended for multiple multicasting as well.