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Energy Balanced And Energy Saving Routing Protocol For Wireless Multi-hop Networks

Routing protocol; energy balanced; energy saving; multi-hop

The performance of wireless multi-hop networks strongly depends on the routing protocols and the efficient use of limited battery energy. Traditional minimum hop counts routing protocol may consume great energy and may cause dead-node in the network. Existing energy efficient routing solutions can be broadly divided into two categories: energy balanced strategies which aim at balancing energy usage among the nodes by avoiding excessive utilization of nodes, and energy saving solutions which aim at delivering packets from source node to destination node with the minimal transmission energy consumption. However, these two methods may in conflict with each other sometimes. In this paper, we propose a new solution which combines the energy balancing routing method and the minimum energy consumption routing method. The weighted value of network lifetime and energy consumption is used as the metric to choose the best path between source node and destination node. Simulation results show that the proposed solution can extend network lifetime and decrease energy consumption compare with traditional routing protocol.