ENERGY AWARE LOAD BALANCED MULTICAST ROUTING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS(EALBMR)

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network are unusual breed of wireless networks where the sensor nodes are primarily involved in sensing the tasks. Multicast routing refers to the routing scenario which has a single source node and multiple sink nodes. Energy awareness between the sensor nodes and balancing load between the cluster heads and cluster members is proposed in the paper. The life span of the network can be extended by proposed methodology. The data aggregated at the clusters and forwarding of data through the feed node helps in effective utilization of the available energy. The simulation experiment proves that the proposed model is more energy efficient where the nodes are aware of the available energy and balances the load at each node