Energy Efficient Cross Layer Routing Protocol with Adaptive Dynamic Retransmission for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The wireless sensor networks consist of densely populated sensor nodes which are capable of transmitting critical data to intended sink node. The important and crucial part of wireless sensor networks is to utilize and save energy in more conservative way. Here is very much needed to support required application objectives by utilizing the developed energy efficient routing protocols which have severe energy limitations. The main focus of the work is to achieve prolonged network lifetime while considering overall energy consumption in the wireless network. In this paper, we propose efficient Cross Layer Routing Protocol (CLP) which is designed to adopt cross-layer strategy that consider the amount of energy consumed during routing from one node to another for Wireless Sensor Networks. Mechanism is adopted to save transmission power between the two nodes and maintain the nodes neighbor’s tables interleaving to utilize the transmission energy efficiently by making use of adaptive retransmission mechanism. The node’s sleep time is prolonged by determining the nodes routing information from network layer. The simulations results show that CLP is efficient approach which yields good results and achieves significant improvement in terms of performance.