Balancing the Power Consumption Speed in Flat and Hierarchical WSN

A combination of a cluster tree routing protocol and an Ad hoc on demand vector (AODV) routing protocol is used in the latest ZigBee standard wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology.However,the AODV routing protocol has no means by which to take into consideration the power consumption of the nodes during the routing process.Therefore,a new approach is proposed in this paper to balance the power consumption speed and to distribute the responsibilities of routing among flat wireless sensor nodes and the three levels of hierarchical wireless sensor nodes.These three levels are based on the three types of devices,which are used in the ZigBee standard:the coordinator,the routers,and the end devices.In this paper,we have compared the original AODV routing protocol with our extension approach for the distribution of power consumption.Based on the simulation results,our new approach has achieved better performance in terms of increasing the lifetime of the flat wireless sensor network,the personal area network (PAN) coordinator,the routers,and the whole network of the hierarchical wireless sensor network.Additionally,it has better performance in terms of distributing the power consumption among the key nodes of the wireless sensor network.