3 Dimensional WSN: An energy efficient network

A typical wireless sensor network contains large number of wireless nodes with sensing, data conditioning and communication capabilities [1]. All these processes consume energy for which they have to rely on their onboard batteries. Replacement and recharging of these batteries is difficult. So several strategies have been implemented to compute the energy efficiency[2] of wireless sensor network. In this paper, we are going to present an experimental evaluation of energy efficiency which depends on parameters such as energy consumption, latency and dropped frame in a 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional scenario of 100 nodes WSN. So for computing the energy efficiency of WSN, we compare the mean energy consumption, average dropped frames and latency of nodes with respect to number of packets, positioning of nodes (dimension-wise) and type of modulation (MSK or OQPSK16). OMNET++ 4.5 is used for the designing and computation of this wireless sensor network.