title: Energy efficient strategy for throughput improvement in wireless sensor networks.
abstract: Network lifetime and throughput are one of the prime concerns while designing routing protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, most of the existing schemes are either geared towards prolonging network lifetime or improving throughput. This paper presents an energy efficient routing scheme for throughput improvement in WSN. The proposed scheme exploits multilayer cluster design for energy efficient forwarding node selection, cluster heads rotation and both inter- and intra-cluster routing. To improve throughput, we rotate the role of cluster head among various nodes based on two threshold levels which reduces the number of dropped packets. We conducted simulations in the NS2 simulator to validate the performance of the proposed scheme. Simulation results demonstrate the performance efficiency of the proposed scheme in terms of various metrics compared to similar approaches published in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. sjabbar.research@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Sohail
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jabbar
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. abid.research@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Abid Ali
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Minhas
authors.affiliation: King Saud University, P.O. Box 92144, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia. cimran@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imran
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. shehzad_khalid@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Shehzad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khalid
authors.affiliation: King Saud University, P.O. Box 92144, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia. ksaleem@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Kashif
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saleem