Position-based Energy-Efficient Greedy Forwarding in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) is one of the rising technologies for numerous areas of application, such as environmental monitoring, industrial sensing and diagnostics and battlefield awareness. Such wireless sensor nodes are often deployed in remote locations. Thus, energy efficient and reliable data forwarding is important because each node has limited resources. In this paper we propose a position-based energy-efficient greedy forwarding scheme to reduce the energy consumption while increasing the packet delivery ratio for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs).In our paper, each node decides whether or not to be a relay node by itself considering the remaining energy and mobility. Simulation results show that the energy consumption and the average end-to-end delay can be reduced by selecting relay node considering the energy and mobility.