An Energy Efficient Multicasting Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor network consists of hundreds to thousands of nodes that communicate among themselves using radio signals and any node can leave or join the network when required. In Wireless sensor network no central controller is present. Sensor nodes deployed in the network are responsible for data routing in the network. Wireless sensor network is used to monitor the environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure, humidity, sound, noise etc. Wireless Sensor nodes have very small size and have limited resources. In far places, it is very difficult to recharge or replace the battery of the sensor nodes. In such conditions, focus is to reduce the battery consumption of the sensor nodes. In this work, a new technique is proposed to enable efficient battery consumption in a multicasting routing protocol. In this technique, the cluster heads are selected on the basis of dynamic clustering using neural network. Simulation results show that the proposed technique is more reliable, energy efficient and provide better results as compared to the existing technique.