Power Consumption Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks with Different Modulation and Routing Techniques

Abstract: The sensors are used to sense and convert the one physical quantity to another quantity and when these sensors are attached with processing devices and connecting through a network, it becomes as a wireless sensor network technology. The sensor network is the combination of sensor nodes and all the sensor nodes are battery operated. The battery replacement or recharging is difficult, so power consumption is the major issue for wireless sensor networks with modulation techniques such as MSK and OQPSK16 and routing techniques such as Converge cast Routing Technique (CRT) and Dummy Routing Technique (DRT) [7]. In this paper power analysis has been reported for both modulation techniques in static and mobile wireless sensor networks. Experiment is performed for 802.15.4 physical layer energy consumption with modulation type (MSK & OQPSK16), routing techniques such as Convergecast Routing Technique (CRT)[12] and Dummy Routing Technique (DRT)[5]