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Eetbr: Energy Efficient Token-Based Routing For Wireless Sensor Networks, Taner Çevi̇k, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The most significant drawback of wireless sensor networks is energy scarcity. As there is an increasing need for operating these networks for relatively long times, energy saving becomes the key challenge in the design of the architectures and protocols for sensor networks. Therefore, several research studies have been performed for making contributions to the analysis of this energy shortage problem. Most of these research activities have been focused on finding solutions for the energy consumption of the communication unit, which is the dominant energy dissipating component of the sensor nodes. In this paper, a novel, token-based routing protocol adapted with …