Lifetime Analysis of a Slotted Aloha-Based Wireless Sensor Network Using a Cross-Layer Frame Rate Adaptation Scheme

Abstract

ABSTRACT:A wireless sensor network consists of a large number of nodes spread over a specific area where we want to look after at the changes going on there. A sensor node generally consists of sensors, actuators, memory, a processor and they do have communication ability. All the sensor nodes are allowed to communicate through a wireless medium. The wireless medium may either of radio frequencies, infrared or any other medium, of course, having no wired connection. Many techniques are proposed for energy saving, Clustering is one of them. In this technique, the clusters are formed by clustering of the grouping nodes. The cluster heads are elected periodically such that members of a cluster can communicate with their cluster heads. These cluster heads send data received from its members to a base station. The multi clustering can also be used. RFID is used in it. The cluster head should have to be rotated for the balancing of energy and then there will be equal load on every node.A master node is deployed within sensor network that is synchronized with GPS. Master node gives the timing information to all sensor nodes so they all are synchronized to each other.