Power consumption efficient routing protocol for forest fire detection based on mobile sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks play an important role in many applications that require networks that could be used in emergency and rescue operations or in disasters such as forest fire. Forest fires are costing millions of dollars in addition to the big losses of trees and air pollution that is spreading to the neighbouring countries. In such disaster, an effective and reliable routing protocol in terms of energy consumption is much needed for continuous monitoring. This paper presents a new routing protocol named Power Consumption Efficient-Optimized Link State Routing (PCE-OLSR) protocol in the forest fire detection. PCE-OLSR protocol exploits the energy of the nodes that is located in the fire zone in order to fully utilize its energy and consequently preserved the energy of other nodes in the network. The proposed PCE-OLSR protocol has been evaluated and compared with the traditional OLSR protocol in terms of packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, energy consumption and routing overhead. Results have shown that PCE-OLSR performs better than its comparative.