Recently, wireless sensor networks have become one of the most exciting areas for
research and development. However, sensor nodes are battery operated, thus the
sensor¿s ability to perform its assigned tasks is limited by its battery capacity;
therefore, energy efficiency is considered to be a key issue in designing WSN
applications.
Clustering has emerged as a useful mechanism for trade-off between certain design
goal conflicts; the network life time, and the amount of data obtained. However,
different sources of energy waste still exist. Furthermore, in such dynamic
environments, different data rate requirements emerge due to the current network
status, thus adapting a response to the changing network is essential, rather than
following the same principle during the network¿s lifespan.
This thesis presents dynamic techniques to adapt to network changes, through which
the limited critical energy source can be wisely managed so that the WSN application
can achieve its intended design goals. Two approaches have been taken to decreasing
the energy use. The first approach is to develop two dynamic round time controllers,
called the minimum round time controller MIN-RC and the variable round time
controller VAR-RC, whereas the second approach improves intra-cluster
communication using a Co-Cluster head; both approaches show better energy
utilisation compared to traditional protocols. A third approach has been to develop a
general hybrid protocol H-RC that can adapt different applications requirements; it
can also tolerate different data rate requirements for the same application during the
system¿s lifetime.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5751 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Ghneimat, Ahmed A.H. |
| Contributors | Mellor, John E., Jiang, Ping |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Department of Comput, School of Computing, Informatics and Media |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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