I-Min: An Intelligent Fermat Point Based Energy Efficient Geographic Packet Forwarding Technique for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks

摘要

Energy consumption and delay incurred in packet delivery are the twoimportant metrics for measuring the performance of geographic routing protocolsfor Wireless Adhoc and Sensor Networks (WASN). A protocol capable of ensuringboth lesser energy consumption and experiencing lesser delay in packet deliveryis thus suitable for networks which are delay sensitive and energy hungry atthe same time. Thus a smart packet forwarding technique addressing both theissues is thus the one looked for by any geographic routing protocol. In thepresent paper we have proposed a Fermat point based forwarding technique whichreduces the delay experienced during packet delivery as well as the energyconsumed for transmission and reception of data packets.