Analysis on Deployment Cost and Network Performance for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network is an autonomous system of sensor connected by wireless devices without any fixed infrastructure support. One of the major issues in wireless sensor network is developing a cost effective routing protocol which has a significant impact on the overall network performance in the sensor network. In this paper, we have considered three types of nodes with different battery energy. The key role of the proposed protocol is to maximize the network performance without increasing the network deployment cost. We have compared the quantitative analysis of different protocols in terms of their network deployment cost. Our analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve higher network performance and lower network deployment cost as compared to the existing protocols.