Author(s)

Kanojia Sindhuben Babulal, Rajiv Ranjan Tewari

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Several protocols and schemes have been proposed to reduce energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Net-works (WSNs). In this paper we employ farcoopt, a cross layer design approach with the concept of coop-eration among the nodes with best farthest neighbor scheme to increase the Quality of Service (QoS), reduce energy consumption, increases performance and end-to-end throughput. We present cooperative transmission to connect previously disconnect parts of a network thus overcoming the separation problem of multi-hop network. We show that this approach improves connectivity over 50% compared to multi-hop approaches and reduces the number of nodes necessary to provide full coverage of an area up to 35%. Simulation results show that on increase of data rates i.e. packet the network life time increases in farcoopt as compared to tra-ditional multi hop approach. The result of this analysis is presented in this work.

Cooperative Network, Cross Layer Design, Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Saving, Communication Protocol, Routing

K. Babulal and R. Tewari, "Cross Layer Design for Cooperative Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks," Wireless Sensor Network, Vol. 3 No. 6, 2011, pp. 209-214. doi: 10.4236/wsn.2011.36024.