Performance of Various Algorithms to Reduce the Number of Transmitted Packets by Sensor Nodes in Wireless Sensor Network

Energy consumption is an important issue in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Reducing the number of transmission packet messages by sensor nodes is the most common solutions to save the node battery. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is to study the performances of different algorithms that can reduce the number of data packets transmitted by sensor nodes within the WSN. The selected algorithms in this study are Move Average (MA) algorithm, Autoregressive all-pole model parameters - Burg's algorithm. (AR-B), Autoregressive all-pole model parameters - Yule-Walker algorithm (AR-YW) and an Efficient Data Collection and Dissemination Algorithm (EDCD1). The performance comparison shows that the on the basis of reduction in the data packet transmissions from the source to the sink, EDCD1 algorithm shows the maximum reduction of 92% while a minimum reduction of 23% is shown in case of MA and the reduction of AR-B and AR-YW are 58% and 56, respectively. Moreover, in terms of the absolute error in the data at the sink, the EDCD1 algorithm shows the best performance with a less average error at 2.2803 for all sensors compared to other algorithms.