Design and Optimization of Hybrid Multilayer Receiver Initiated MAC Protocol for Energy Harvesting based Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The wireless sensor network is a potential technology that is offering a variety of applications both in the civilian and the military domain. A wireless sensor network typically consists of a large number of low cost, low power, and multifunctional sensor nodes that are deployed in the area of interest. These sensor nodes are small in size but are equipped with, embedded processors and radio transceivers. Therefore they have not only the sensing but data processing and communicating capabilities. They communicate over short distance via a wireless medium and collaborate with other nodes to accomplish a common task, for example, military surveillance, industrial process control, and environmental monitoring. In particular sensor nodes are battery powered and should operate without the attendant for a long period of time. newline