Determination of Adjacent Nodes for Power Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for determination of adjacent nodes to facilitate the formation of power efficient wireless sensor networks that are robust to channel variations caused by movement in the surrounding communication environment. Whereas conventional methods determine adjacent nodes in wireless sensor networks using one ID packet, our proposed method uses several ID packets that are collected in link investigation cycles. This method improves the battery life of the overall network system and thereby facilitates highly-reliable communication networks.