Power-Aware Anycast Routing in Wireless Sensor Network Exploiting Small World Effect

By considering energy-efficient anycast routing in wireless sensor network (WSN), and combining small world characteristics of WSN with the properties of the ant algorithm, a power-aware anycast routing algorithm (SWPAR) with multi-sink nodes is proposed and evaluated. By SWPAR, the optimal sink node is found and the problem of routing path is effectively solved. Simulation results show that compared with the sink-based anycast routing protocol (SARP) and the hierarchy-based anycast routing protocol (HARP), the proposed algorithm improves network lifetime and reduces power consumption.