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Keywords
Wireless sensor network, wsn, cluster head, base station, sensor node
INTRODUCTION
A Wireless Sensor Network or WSN is supposed to be made up of a large number of sensors and at least one base station.
The sensors are autonomous small devices with several constraints like the battery power, computation capacity,
communication range and memory. They also are supplied with transceivers to gather information from its environment and
pass it on up to a certain base station, where the measured parameters can be stored and available for the end user. In
most cases, the sensors forming these networks are deployed randomly and left unattended to and are expected to perform
their mission properly and efficiently [1]. As a result of this random deployment, the WSN has usually varying degrees of
node density along its area. Sensor networks are also energy constrained since the individual sensors, which the network
is formed with, are extremely energy-constrained as well. The communication devices on these sensors are small and have
limited power and range. Both the probably difference of node density among some regions of the network and the energy
constraint of the sensor nodes cause nodes slowly die making the network less dense. Also, it is quite common to deploy
WSNs in harsh environment, what makes many sensors in operable or faulty. For that reason, these networks need to be
fault-tolerant so that the need for maintenance is minimized [2]. Typically, the network topology is continuously and
dynamically changing, and it is actually not a desired solution to replenish it by infusing new sensors instead the depleted
ones. A real and appropriate solution for this problem is to implement routing protocols that perform efficiently and utilizing
the less amount of energy as possible for the communication among nodes. A wireless sensor network is a technology that
emerges as a consequence of the evolution of network technology along with microelectronics and micromechanical
devices. It is a new concept, a view towards the future, a clear consequence of the new steps forward in the communications
field. In few words a wireless sensor network, is a network that could contain from a couple to many small nodes with sensors
attached and communications capabilities to transmit and receive information [3.
every node can communicate with each other without any fixed infrastructure [4]. This is actually one of the features that
differentiate between ad-hoc and other wireless technology like cellular networks and wireless LAN which actually required
infrastructure based communication like through some base station. Wireless sensor network is one of the category belongs
to ad-hoc networks. Sensor network contains multiple nodes. Here actually the node has a specific name that is “Sensor”
because these nodes are equipped with smart sensors. A sensor node is a device that converts a sensed characteristic like
temperature, vibrations, pressure into a form recognize by the users. Wireless sensor networks nodes are less mobile than
ad-hoc networks. So, mobility in case of ad-hoc is more. In wireless sensor network data are requested depending upon
certain physical quantity. So wireless sensor network is data centric [5]. A sensor consists of a transducer, an embedded
processor, small memory unit and a wireless transceiver and all these devices run on the power supplied by an attached.
The main entities that constitute a sensor network are:
i. Sensor nodes are the main component of sensor network. Their main objectives are making discrete, local
measurement about phenomenon surrounding these sensors, forming a wireless network by communicating over
a wireless medium, and collect date and rout data back to the user via sink (Base Station).
ii. The sink (Base Station) communicates with the user via internet or satellite communication. It is located near the
sensor field or well-equipped nodes of the sensor network. Collected data from the sensor field routed back to the
sink by a multi-hop infrastructure less architecture through the sink.
iii. Phenomenon which is an entity of interest to the user to collect measurements about. This phenomenon sensed
and analyzed by the sensor nodes.
iv. The user who is interested in obtaining information about specific phenomenon to measure/monitor its behavior.
SENSOR NODES
Sensors nodes are typically built of few sensors and a mote unit as shown in figure 1.2. The sensor nodes are scattered in
a special domain called sensor network. These nodes mainly have the capability to collect data, analyze them and route
them to a sink point i.e. a sensor is a device which senses the information and pass it on to mote. Sensors are typically used
to measure the changes in physical environmental parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, sound, vibration and
changes in the health parameter of person e.g. blood pressure and heartbeat. MEMS based sensor have found good use
in sensor nodes. A mote consists of processor, memory, battery, A/D converter for connecting to a sensor and a radio
transceiver for forming an ad hoc network. A mote and sensor together form a Sensor Node. A sensor network is a wireless
ad-hoc network of sensor nodes. Each sensor node can support a multi-hop routing algorithm and function as forwarder for
relaying data packets to a base station.
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BASE STATION
It is an extraordinary type of node having high computational energy and processing capability. A base station links the
sensor network to another network. It consists of a processor, radio board, antenna and USB interface board. It is
preprogrammed with low-power mesh networking software for communication with wireless sensor nodes. Deployment of
the base station in a wireless sensor network is very important as all the sensor nodes handover their data to the base
station for processing and decision making [7]. Energy conservation, coverage of sensor nodes and reliability issues are
taken care of during deployment of base station in sensor network. Generally base stations are assumed static in nature but
in some scenarios, they are assumed to be mobile to collect the data from sensor nodes.
Base station
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ii. Environmental Applications: Some environmental applications of sensor network include tracking the movement of
birds, small animals and insects; monitoring environmental conditions that affect crops and livestock ; irrigation; macro
instruments for large scale earth monitoring and planetary exploration; chemical/biological detection; precision
agriculture; Earthen and environmental monitoring in marine, soil and atmospheric contexts ; forest fire detection and
meteorological and geophysical research; flood detection; bio complexity mapping of the environment and pollution
study.
iii. Health Application: Some of the applications are providing interfaces for the disabled; integrated patient monitoring;
diagnostics; drug administration in hospital; monitoring the movements and internal process of insects or others mall
animals; Tele-monitoring of human physiological data; and tracking and monitoring doctors and patients inside a hospital.
For example, sensors, can be deployed in a patient’s home to monitor the behaviors of the patient. It can alert doctors
when the patient falls and requires immediate medical attention.
iv. Home Applications: Wireless sensor networks can be used to provide more convenient and intelligent living
environments for human beings. Home automation; as technology advances, smart sensor nodes and actuators can be
buried appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, refrigerators and VCRs.
v. Agriculture: By using wireless sensor networks within the agricultural industry is increasingly common; using a wireless
network frees the farmer from the maintenance of wiring in a difficult environment [5]. Gravity feed water systems can
be monitored using pressure transmitters to monitor water tank levels, pumps can be controlled using wireless I/O
devices and water use can be measured and wirelessly transmitted back to a central control center for billing. Irrigation
automation enables more efficient water use and reduces waste.
vi. Structural Monitoring: Wireless sensors can be used to monitor the movement within buildings and infrastructure such
as bridges, flyovers, embankments, tunnels etc. enabling Engineering practices to monitor assets remotely without the
need for costly site visits, as well as having the advantage of daily data, whereas traditionally this data was collected
weekly or monthly, using physical site visits, involving either road or rail closure in some cases [6]. It is also far more
accurate than any visual inspection that would be carried out.
LITERATURE SURVEY
The needed detailed literature survey, to get preliminary knowledge and search scope of investigation, to implement Low
energy adaptive clustering hierarchy, is explained in this chapter. This synopsis presents investigational studies in several
energy efficient routing algorithms and its general purpose. Yu Xiuwu et al (2016) proposes a routing protocol that is based
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on monitoring area partition clustering for energy-balanced (EBPC). They divided monitoring area into several virtual
partitions, controlled the number of common nodes and clusters by data fusion rate, and forwarded cluster heads data to
the next partitions with minimum path selection coefficient. Samaresh Bera et al (2016) proposes a software-defined wireless
sensor network architecture (Soft-WSN)—an effort to support application-aware service provisioning in Internet of Things
(IoT). Detailed architecture of the proposed system is presented involving the application, control, and infrastructure layers
to enable software-defined networking (SDN) in IoT. Alduais et al (2016) specifies that WSN has become an enabler
technology for the IOT applications which extend the physical reach of the monitoring capability. WSN as it is, possess
several constraints such as limited energy availability, low memory size, and low processing speed, which are the principal
obstacles to designing efficient management protocols for WSNs, what more if it concerns WSN-IOT integration. Omkar
Singh et al (2016) compares three well accepted WSN routing protocols namely LEACH, FAIR and SEP for their energy
pattern in heterogeneous scenario. Heterogeneity is introduced in terms of initial random energy values given to the sensor
nodes. All simulations are done in MATLAB. Different parameters are used for checking the efficacy of the considered
routing protocol for H-WSN. Rani Kumari et al (2016) analyzes the performance of the various routing protocols of the
wireless network in the WBAN and WSN. Moreover, the paper also compares their performance in the same network and
in different network using different parameters i.e. PDR, latency and throughput etc. The research signifies that the wireless
protocols needs updating to perform well in the WBAN. Hector Kaschel et al (2016) describes the mechanisms to achieve
energy efficiency in a WSN, focusing particularly on routing protocols. Based on the state of the art, is presented a complete
taxonomy of routing protocols used in WSN exposing their level of energy efficiency. Asdianur et al (2016) studied
effectiveness in using Compressive Sensing (CS) algorithm in order to reduce measuring in IEEE 802.15.4 Standard
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). As well known, in common WSN work system, Base Station (BS) gather some information
from available nodes, which the process itself consumes a lot of energy from each node. Mohd Zaki Shahabuddin et al
(2016) proposes fundamental modelling of topology control algorithm to conserve individual WSN node’s energy, and at the
same time preserving the graph connectivity. The proposed topology control algorithm consists of three phases: 1.
Identifying connecting nodes at maximum transmission, 2. pairing nodes with shortest algorithm/minimum energy level, 3.
Calculating/setting minimum power transmission per-node for energy conservation. The algorithm works-out locally and
dispenses full graph connectivity, and theoretically would be able to reduce WSN control overhead. Abhay kumar et al
(2016) presents a novel scheme to improve the lifetime of a sensor node by optimizing the size of the packet such that there
is no loss of data along with providing an increased lifetime for the nodes. Wireless sensor network is a rapid developing
area with diverse applications. Smartness and interoperability of network keeps it in high demand and hence comes need
for the efficiency of the system. The most important limitation on sensor node is the low power consumption. Sensor nodes
carry inadequate, generally irreplaceable power sources. Therefore, while traditional networks aim to achieve high quality
of service (QoS), wireless sensor network protocols must emphasis predominantly on power conservation. B. Bengherbia
et al (2016) states that the wireless sensor network (WSN) represent fertile area for research and exploration, especially
with enormous development in modern electronic systems, where it becomes an alternative to traditional wired systems.
The wireless stems are less energy-consumptive and inexpensive, in addition it helps to reduce the complexity of wiring.
Wireless sensor networks require the design of high density computing, an energy-efficient and a flexible node architecture.
Gagandeep Kaur et al (2016) decreases the passive attack on sink node by decreasing the traffic on sink node. The
simulation results demonstrate the proposed method can each node will compress their data before sending to cluster head.
After compressing, the packet size of node will decrease. This will decrease the traffic overload. Mei Wu et al (2016)
proposes a new model to efficiently control cluster-heads using heterogeneous sensors in real-time. It also proposes a
generic software framework to feasibly and efficiently meet the needs of the users and applications (e.g., reliability, energy
efficiency). The proposed model and its method have been implemented and evaluated in MATLAB, comparing its
performance with known protocols for WSNs. The proposed model is suitable for common use because it is superior to other
methods by energy efficiency. Sanaa. S et al (2016) introduces an authentication protocol and simple key distributed scheme
between sensor nodes. Node mobility has been taken into consideration and the work proposes a re-authentication protocol
that is very efficient than the initial protocol. A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of thousands of sensors and one
base station. Sensors are deployed in the network to monitor target area and sense information according to the applied
application then send this information to the base station. Roman Lara-Cueva et al (2016) presents a study in order to
identify the value range of the main parameters within Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) defined in IEEE 802.15.4 that
guarantee a satisfactory Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) performance for a possible volcano monitoring application.
Moreover, this study performs the comparison between test-bed in outdoor scenarios with the purpose of distinguishing the
optimal number of nodes or each gateway according the main constrains given by an existing sensor network for real-time
(RT) volcano monitoring system such as sampling time, packet loss, and delay.
RESEARCH MOTIVATION
Due to the deployment of WSNs in unattended harsh environment conditions, it gets to be unrealistic to charge or replace
their batteries. Accordingly, the energy efficient operation of wireless sensors is very important to prolong the lifetime of
overall wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, in WSN, there is wireless communication among all the nodes. Moreover,
the energy consumed to transmit a message is exceptionally more than the energy needed to receive the same message.
Besides all this, the route of each message destined to the base station too decides the network lifetime; for example, any
node with depleted battery in short routes to the base station may lead to decreased network lifetime. While, using a long
route composed of many sensor nodes can significantly increase the network delay.
• Cluster head election is entirely based on the residual/remaining energy and distance to base station.
• If the CH will send the data directly to the BS, then there will be much loss of energy for the CH which is far from the BS.
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• If CH chooses the multi-hop node (relay node) for data transmission, then the node which is connected to BS will be
overloaded with data of all the regions.
• More parameters like number of neighbors, average energy consumption should also be considered before electing the
node as cluster head.
CONCLUSION
The lower cost and easier installation of the WSNs than the wired counterpart pushes industry and academia to pay more
attention to this promising technology. Large scale networks of small energy-constrained sensor nodes require techniques
and protocols which are scalable, robust, and energy-efficient. Hierarchy provided by clustering techniques is an efficient
approach to meet such requirements. Furthermore, data aggregation techniques are only performed by CHs. This research
paper focuses on the architecture of wireless sensor networks and their applications. In the future work, the main focus will
be kept on implementing the wsn in matlab environment by dividing the network into multiple regions and assigning the
cluster head for each region.
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DOI:10.24297/ijct.v16i6.6400
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