State Aware Advertisement Mechanism for ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy constrained ZigBee based Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs commonly experience performance degradation due to idle listening, inefficient broadcast dissemination, false acknowledgment reception, and increased latency in multi hop communication. These limitations significantly reduce network lifetime and adversely affect quality of service, especially in dense and large scale deployments. To address these challenges, this paper presents a cognition inspired, state aware communication mechanism that combines an adaptive advertisement packet strategy with a modified Medium Access Control MAC scheduling framework. The proposed scheme introduces a dynamic pricing based parent–child association model that considers node energy status, traffic conditions, and link reliability. In addition, repeated advertisement–ACK handshakes are employed to improve synchronization and ensure robust link establishment along routing paths. An energy aware MAC scheduling approach is further integrated to adapt listening and transmission behavior according to traffic priority and node operational states, thereby reducing unnecessary idle listening and acknowledgment errors. MATLAB based simulations are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism under various network conditions. The results demonstrate notable improvements in throughput, end to end latency, and node lifetime compared with conventional IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee operations and representative benchmark algorithms, including EEHC and DB EBH. By enhancing node awareness, strengthening multi hop synchronization, and improving the reliability of both unicast and broadcast communications, the proposed approach offers an efficient solution for next generation low power WSN applications. Nanushree | Dr. Tripti Arjariya | Jeetendra Singh Yadav "State-Aware Advertisement Mechanism for ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-9 | Issue-6 , December 2025, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd99964.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-network/99964/stateaware-advertisement-mechanism-for-zigbee-wireless-sensor-networks/nanushree