AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR PROVIDING FULL CONNECTIVITY IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

As Wireless Sensor Network has gained more focus in the recent years, coverage, redundancy, connectivity, network lifetime are considered as very important issues to be addressed. Connectivity issue is considered to be addressed in this paper as it is one of the important issues of wireless sensor network. Connectivity is required to provide the communication among all the sensor nodes deployed in given region of interest. Without connectivity among sensor nodes and between base station and sensor nodes, the information collected by sensors cannot be sent to base station. An efficient connectivity algorithm is proposed in this paper to provide full connectivity among all the sensors nodes without any duplicate communication links. It also provides connectivity between base station and sensor node closest to it in wireless sensor network. The simulated results show that the proposed approach provides full connectivity and full coverage with very less number of sensor nodes.