A distributed power management optimisation in wireless sensors networks

This paper presents a study on power management optimisation over a sensor network. We have proposed a set of management rules which are executed by each sensor of the network. These rules adapt themselves to sensors depending on their energy status and on the network energy. Periodically, each sensor computes its rules and decides how to behave (sleeping during a long period or not). An experimentation of these rules has been implemented, we used a distributed sort algorithm on the whole network. We have observed the network behaviour and noticed that the use of these rules allows to increase the average energy life up to 20 %.