An Opportunistic Large Array Concentric Geographic Routing Algorithm with a Relay Node in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a group of wireless sensor nodes, those sensor nodes with sensing and monitoring of environmental information. Energy consumption is an important topic; the node's power is limited. Therefore, we proposed an Opportunistic Large Array Concentric Geographic Routing Algorithm (OLACGRA) to reduce the node’s energy consumption and analysis the characteristic of energy model. The sink position of our proposed OLACGRA is at the center of concentric topology architecture. The source node wants to transmit data that it needs to calculate the distance between source node and sink node. If this distance bigger than threshold value, we use the multi-hop manner. Otherwise, source node transmits data to sink node directly. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the node’s energy consumption.