Energy preservation and network critic based channel scheduling (EPNCS) in cognitive radio sensor networks

Abstract

Cognitive Radio Sensor Network (CRSN) is a distributed network of Cognitive Radio (CR) enabled wireless sensor nodes where there is no guarantee of the availability of vacant channels for data transfer. In CRSN nodes spend energy in radio spectrum sensing to sense the availability of vacant channels and hence energy preservation becomes a major concern. In this proposed work, a novel algorithm—energy preservation and network critics based channel scheduling (EPNCS) algorithm in CRSNs is designed which regulates the slot time for sensor nodes. Depending on environmental data traffic, the sleep time of sensor nodes is varied which reduces power consumption. Scalable dynamic slots are computed for each sensor node based on the average buffer occupancy which leads to optimal channel utilization. Simulation results show that EPNCS improves the network lifetime and throughput of CRSN significantly in comparison with existing protocols.