Energy Efficient Handover Management in Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Network

Mahdi Zareei (Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Muhammed I. Alghamdi (College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Albaha University, Albaha)
A.K.M. Muzahidul Islam (Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Sabariah Baharun (Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Rahmat Budiarto (College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Albaha University, Albaha)

Proceeding of the Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Informatics
Vol 1: EECSI 2014

Wireless sensors are compact-size, low power, inexpensive devices which are capable to measure local environmental conditions or other parameters such as temperature, acceleration, and forward such information to a sink for proper processing. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been under development by both academic and industrial societies for a while. By moving toward applications such as the area of medical care and disaster response mobility in wireless sensor networks has attracted a lot of attentions. In energy constraint sensor network, mobility handling introduces unique challenges in aspects like resource management, coverage, routing protocols, security, etc. This paper, proposes an energy-efficient mobility-aware MAC protocol to handle node handover among different clusters. The simulation-based experiments show that the proposed protocol has better performance compared to the existing S-MAC method.