TITLE:
An Energy Efficient Color Based Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
AUTHORS:
Muhammad Asghar Khan, Asfandyar Khan, Said Khalid Shah, Azween Abdullah
KEYWORDS:
Sensor; Topology Control; Energy Efficiency; Energy Conservation
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.5 No.1,
January
30,
2013
ABSTRACT: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
are universally being used and deployed to monitor the surrounding physical environments
and detail events of interest. In wireless Sensor Networks energy is one of the
primary issues and requires energy conservation of the sensor nodes, so that
network lifetime can be maximized. To minimize the energy loss in dense WSNs a
Color Based Topology Control (CBTC) algorithm is introduced and implemented in
Visual Studio 6.0. The results are compared with Traditional dense WSNs. In the
evaluation process it was observed that the numbers of CPU ticks required in
traditional WSNs are much more than that’s of CBTC Algorithm, both in Normal and Random
deployments. So by using CBTC, delay in network can be minimized. Using CBTC
algorithm, the energy conservation and removal of coverage holes was also
achieved in the present study.