An Energy-Efficient Static Multi-Hop (ESM) Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network in Agriculture

Energy efficient routing is a crucial area of research for wireless sensor network(WSN). The communication between the wireless sensor nodes is handled by the routing protocols. The nature of the link, low power and limited recourse makes it a difficult task to design an energy and performance efficient routing protocol for WSN. This paper proposes an energy-efficient route selection protocol for a multi-hop network with a static link for deployment in the field of agriculture. An energy model is also given in this paper to evaluate the energy consumption of the network. The proposed energy-efficient static multi-hop(ESM) routing protocol is evaluated based on the performance parameters for energy efficiency, network lifetime and pack loss and compared with an existing scheme. The simulation results represent that the proposed protocol increases the network throughput and the lifetime.