Sleep More Without Losing the Network Connectivity

Abstract

Extensive research efforts have been put to facilitate distraction free communication in intermittently connected networks. Nodes within this kind of network experiences frequent disconnections due to sparse deployment of nodes, mobility and node failures. Usually, nodes in intermittent network spend the time in listening network rather than transmitting or receiving any useful data. The energy consumed in the idle listening mode is one of the major reasons for battery drain in intermittent network. This paper addresses the energy consumption problem during idle listening and provides a better solution by designing a new structure for beacon interval with one beacon frame and checking out the neighbor table for the past record of encounters so as to decrease idle listening without losing network connectivity in the intermittent network. The actual performance of the proposed work is analyzed using the parameters packet delivery ratio, energy consumption and neighbor discovery in order to check the condition “sleep more without losing the network connectivity” is achieved.