Division Algorithm Based Energy-Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Nowadays, the energy consumption has become one of the major constraints for the sensor nodes having a finite energy source in the design of Wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a new routing concept using divide-and-rule sectorization (DRS) scheme has been proposed to curtail the energy efficiency issues in WSNs. In this scheme, each forwarder node is dynamically selected for WSNs which balances the energy consumption among the sensor nodes significantly. The network area is divided into subareas to reduce the unbalance loading condition, and each subarea known as the segment, efficiently decrease the energy hole creation problem of the network. Moreover, the analytical analysis of the energy consumption for the proposed scheme has also been presented. The simulation results confirm that the proposed DRS scheme has better enduring stability, prolonging network lifetime, and minimized energy consumption as compared to available state-of-the-arts.