Moon-Seong Kim, Sang-Hun Cho, Hyung-Jin Lim, Hyun-Seung Choo, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 153-160, Apr. 2009
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Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, Data Dissemination Protocol, Energy Efficiency, network lifetime, SPIN, SPMS

Abstract

One of the major challenges of designing a dissemination protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) is energy efficiency. Recently, this issue has received much attention from the research community, and SPMS, which outperforms the well-known protocol SPIN, specially is a representative protocol. In addition, one of many characters of SPMS is the use of the shortest path to minimize the energy consumption. However, since it repeatedly uses the same path as the shortest path, the maximizing of the network lifetime is impossible, though it reduces the energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a dissemination protocol using probability-based clustering which guarantees energy-efficient data transmission and maximizes network lifetime. The proposed protocol solves the network lifetime problem by a novel probability function, which is related to the residual energy and the transmission radius between nodes. The simulation results show that it guarantees energy-efficient transmission and moreover increases the network lifetime by approximately 78% than that of SPMS.

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