Energy-Efficient MAC-ROUTE Cross-layer Optimal Distance Chain Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are tiny devices with limited energy, computing ability, storage capacity, sensing capacity, and movement. The main issues accountable for energy expenditure in WSNs are numerous; among them, unnecessary high transmission range is the important issue to address. This chapter explores to optimize the energy consumption across MAC and network layers to prolong the lifetime of WSN. The energy efficiency must be supported across MAC, and network layers of protocol stack through a cross-layer design are highlighted in this work. In this context, designed MAC-ROUTE cross-layer technique for chain-based protocol addressed unnecessary high transmission range. The simulation is carried out using MATLAB, and it is observed that proposed protocol is efficient than existing chain-based routing protocols of WSN. The simulation result shows that proposed protocol accomplishes maximum network lifetime compared to existing chain-based routing protocols.