Pragmatic Implementation of Power Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Energy efficiency in routing protocols has been major

design goal for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) as the hosts

are energy constrained. Essentially two actions are concerned in

this notion: Finding an optimal routing path-ways and transferring

the packets throughout an inter-network. The transmission process

of packets way-through an inter-network is called packet switching

which is straight forward and simple, but the path determination

could be very difficult and complex. The routing protocols

employed use many metrics as a benchmark measurement to

compute the best path for routing the packets to its destination and

that measurement could be number of hops, and are used by the

routing technique to determine the optimal path for the packet to its

destination. The process of path determination is through routing

tables, which contain the total route information for the packet.

Routing techniques are majorly classified into static-routing and

dynamic-routing. The static routing method refers to the routing

strategy which is done manually or statically in the router. The

static routing technique maintains routing tables written by a

networks administrator. The dynamic routing process refers to the

routing policy that is being learnt by routing protocol and is used

consequently. This type of routing basically depends on the state of

the network