BEAR A Balanced Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks英文文献资料.docVIP

Wireless Sensor Network, 2010, 2, 793-800 doi:10.4236/wsn.2010.210095 Published Online October 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn/). BEAR: A Balanced Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Ehsan Ahvar , Mahmood Fathy 1 2 Department of Information Technology Communication, Payame Noor University, Iran 1 2 Department of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science Technology, Tehran, Iran E-mail: Ehssana2000@, Mahfathy@iust.ac.ir Received May 28, 2010; revised July 4, 2010; accepted August 9, 2010 Abstract Energy aware routing protocols can be classified into energy saver and energy manager. Energy saver pro- tocols decrease energy consumption totally. Most of them try to find the shortest path between source and destination to reduce energy consumption. But energy manager protocols balance energy consumption in network to avoid network partitioning. Finding best route only based on energy balancing consideration may lead to long path with high delay and decreases network lifetime. On the other hand, finding best route only with the shortest distance consideration may lead to network partitioning. This paper improves SEER [1] routing protocol. Traditional SEER is only energy saver and has poor idea about energy balancing. Our pro- posed protocol, named BEAR, considers energy balancing and optimal distance both. It finds a fair tradeoff between energy balancing and optimal distance by learning automata concept. We simulate and evaluate routing protocols by Glomosim [2] simulator. Keywords: Sensor Network, Energy Aware, Routing Protocol 1. Introduction to save energy. Location-based protocols utilize the posi- tion information to relay the data to the desired regions rather than the whole network. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) contains hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes. Basically, each sensor node comprises sensing, processing, transmission, mobil