Relay Node Placement Based on Optimal Transmission Distance in Two-Tiered Sensor Network

With the gradual expansion of the application field in wireless sensor networks, the problems of the energy consumption has received more and more attention. In wireless sensor networks, the location of sensor nodes and gateway nodes are usually fixed. To ensure that the energy consumption of the sensor network is minimized during data transmission, it is necessary to optimize the placement of relay nodes. This paper proposes the solution of relay nodes placement based on optimal transmission distance, which can minimize the energy consumption and extend the lifetime of the entire network during the transmission process. This scheme starts with a one-dimensional queue network and calculates the optimal distance for each hop transmission to minimize the energy consumption of the one-dimensional queue network. Due to the poor connectivity of the one-dimensional queue network, the concept of the optimal transmission distance is introduced into two-dimensional network, so that the placement scheme can be divided into the symmetrical relay node placement and the asymmetric relay node placement. Finally, the energy consumption of the network is minimized by properly selecting relay nodes. The simulation show that the proposed relay node placement scheme can reduce the energy consumption of the sensor network and extend the network life cycle.