Energy Efficient Design of Cooperative Communication Enabled Magnetic Induction Based Non-Conventional Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Non-conventional media comprising of underground and underwater environment use Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These are used for monitoring, intrusion detection, exploration and sensing. Electromagnetic communication in nonconventional media characterizes high path loss and thus can’t be realized practically. Also, apart from high path loss it experiences ever changing channel behaviour due to soil type, moisture and depth of burial. Magnetic induction (MI)-based communication, a recently explored technique for non-conventional media, addresses the two main considerations for designing cluster-based communication protocols for wireless sensor networks: Lifetime of the network and its efficiency in energy parameter. The goal of this paper is to infer the all out total energy utilization for the proposed cooperative communication methodology, where in the quantity of nodes that take an interest in the cluster to cluster cooperative transmission is an arbitrary variable, whose esteem relies upon the intra-cluster channel and noise.