Game Theory Based Routing Protocols and Their Efficiency in Improving the Lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

The advances in the Internet and communication technology, has set the scene for a new era of inexpensive sensors and actuators which are capable of performing sensing and controlling tasks. A sensor network contains a group of sensors that perform sensing, computing, and communicating data to the sink or the base station (Arampatzis, T., et al., 2005. A Survey of Applications of Wireless Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE International Symposium on, Mediterrean Conference on Control and Automation Intelligent Control, Limassol, Cyprus. pp.27–29). The sensing elements (sensors) have limited battery power and thus pose a limitation with respect to energy consumption. To maintain the longevity of a sensor network there is a need to employ several optimization techniques in order to utilize battery power efficiently. This paper focuses on efficient game theory routing protocols to optimize power consumption in the sensor nodes.