Design of a novel energy efficient routing framework for Wireless Nanosensor Networks

Abstract

With the advancements of the wireless sensing technology, the Wireless Nanosensors Networks (WNSNs) have revolutionized every sector which demands to monitor at the nano-scale level. WNSNs comprises of nanosensors that are acquainted with Nanotransceiver and nanoantenna operating at Terahertz frequency band (0.1-10THz). So far, researchers have focused on energy efficiency in WSNs but the energy issue in WNSNs have not been addressed significantly in the existing literature. In this paper, we have addressed the concern of energy efficiency in WNSNs by proposing the energy balanced clustering in the routing mechanism of WNSNs. The simulation analysis is performed in MATLAB Software to empirically investigate the performance of proposed energy balanced clustering incorporating the appropriate Cluster Head (CH) selection. It is found that the proposed routing framework outperforms the state-of-art routing mechanisms in terms of energy consumption and delay. The proposed scheme is highly triggering for various nanoscale applications.