Energy aware buffer management routing protocol (EABMRP) for improving the WSN lifetime based on energy harvesting model

Abstract

Increasing demand for wireless communication has gained a huge attraction in several real-time application systems. In this field of wireless communication, wireless sensor networks are considered the most promising solution for monitoring the different type of conditional requirements. These networks can be deployed easily in hostile and hazardous environments. However, these networks are powered with a limited battery capacity hence, network lifetime is considered a challenging task in this field. In order to overcome this issue of network lifetime, we develop an energy harvesting and energy management protocol which is known as Energy Aware Buffer Management Routing protocol (EABMRP), to improve the network lifetime. According to the proposed approach, we consider the concept of energy harvesting and a buffer management scheme is developed to minimize the energy wastage during data collection, aggregation and transmission phase. The performance of the proposed approach is validated through an extensive experimental study which is conducted using MATLAB simulation tool. The obtained performance is compared with the existing techniques. The outcome of comparative analysis shows that the proposed approach can significantly improve the network lifetime.