An Energy-Balanced Routing Method Based on Forward-Aware Factor for Wireless Sensor Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 766 - 773
• Main Authors: Zhang, Degan, Li, Guang, Zheng, Ke, Ming, Xuechao, Pan, Zhao-Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.02.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Analytical models; Computer networks; Data communication; Energy balance; forward-aware factor (FAF); industrial application (IA); Routing; Routing protocols; Topology; Wireless sensor networks; wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
• ISSN: 1551-3203; 1941-0050
• DOI: 10.1109/TII.2013.2250910

As an important part of industrial application (IA), the wireless sensor network (WSN) has been an active research area over the past few years. Due to the limited energy and communication ability of sensor nodes, it seems especially important to design a routing protocol for WSNs so that sensing data can be transmitted to the receiver effectively. An energy-balanced routing method based on forward-aware factor (FAF-EBRM) is proposed in this paper. In FAF-EBRM, the next-hop node is selected according to the awareness of link weight and forward energy density. Furthermore, a spontaneous reconstruction mechanism for local topology is designed additionally. In the experiments, FAF-EBRM is compared with LEACH and EEUC, experimental results show that FAF-EBRM outperforms LEACH and EEUC, which balances the energy consumption, prolongs the function lifetime and guarantees high QoS of WSN.