Radio communication range effects on a flat wireless sensor network performance

摘要

Transmission range is one of the main characteristics of a mote sensor node in WSN performance design and analysis. This work is aimed at studying the key performance metrics elements of a flat WSN such as: per query power consumption, and latency in terms of sensor radio communication range. The query-based experiments are implemented in the deterministic and nondeterministic environments of a WSN using a flat routing protocol. The results confirmed that setting up the various amounts of the communication radius to the nodes can offer significant saving energy and faster response time in each successful query cycle. It means the communication outdoor range has a direct impact over the WSN performance.