Abstract
A well-designed energy-efficient routing protocol is an indispensable part for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because a sensor node usually has limited energy. Many research efforts are contributed on routing design in WSNs. With the development of green technology, the energy harvesting technique is being applied to real WSNs. Therefore, existing routing protocols are not suitable for such new WSNs with energy harvesting. In this paper, we concentrate on designing a novel routing protocol, named energy harvesting routing (EHR), which takes energy harvesting as one major factor into routing design to improve the energy efficiency. First, we introduce a hybrid routing metric combining the effect of residual energy and energy harvesting rate. Then we propose an updating mechanism allowing every node to maintain dynamic energy information of its neighbors. Based on the hybrid metric and the neighbor information, EHR is able to locally select the optimal next hop. Extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of EHR. Results demonstrate that EHR outperforms existing routing protocols in energy harvesting WSNs in term of the energy efficiency.
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