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A Novel Energy Efficient and Lifetime Maximization Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

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The energy consumption is a key design criterion for the routing protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Some of the conventional single path routing schemes may not be optimal to maximize the network lifetime and connectivity. Thus, multipath routing schemes is an optimal alternative to extend the lifetime of WSN. Multipath routing schemes distribute the traffic across multiple paths instead of routing all the traffic along a single path. In this paper, we propose a multipath Energy-Efficient data Routing Protocol for wireless sensor networks (EERP). The latter keeps a set of good paths and chooses one based on the node state and the cost function of this path. In EERP, each node has a number of neighbours through which it can route packets to the base station. A node bases its routing decision on two metrics: state and cost function. It searches its Neighbours Information Table for all its neighbours concerned with minimum cost function. Simulation results show that our EERP protocol minimizes and balances the energy consumption well among all sensor nodes and achieves an obvious improvement on the network lifetime.

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  1. We use number of rounds to present the lifetime of network. A round is defined as all nodes in the network finish to return their data to sink.

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The authors would like to thank Khaled Oualah and Rafik Bouchebbah for their help through discussions and simulation work. The authors are very thankful to the anonymous reviews for their constructive comments and suggestions which greatly improve the quality of this paper

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  1. LAMOS Laboratory, University Abderrahmane Mira of Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria

    Samra Boulfekhar

  2. LIRE laboratory, University Maintouri of Constantine, Constantine, Algeria

    Mohammed Benmohammed

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Boulfekhar, S., Benmohammed, M. A Novel Energy Efficient and Lifetime Maximization Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 72, 1333–1349 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1081-4

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