Semi Markov process inspired selfish aware co-operative scheme for wireless sensor networks (SMPISCS)

Abstract

Abstract In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), energy and packet forwarding tendencies of sensor nodes plays a potential role in ensuring a maximum degree of co-operation under data delivery. This quantified level of co-operation signifies the performance of the network in terms of increased throughput, packet delivery rate and decreased delay depending on the data being aggregated and level of control overhead. The performance of a sensor network is highly inclined by the selfish behaving nature of sensor nodes that gets revealed when the residual energy ranges below a bearable level of activeness in packet forwarding. The selfish sensor node needs to be identified in future through reliable forecasting mechanism for improving the lifetime and packet delivery rate. Semi Markov Process Inspired Selfish aware Co-operative Scheme (SMPISCS) is propounded for making an attempt to mitigate selfish nodes for prolonging the lifetime of the network and balancing energy consumptions of the network. SMPISCS model provides a kind of sensor node’s behavior for quantifying and future forecasting the probability with which the node could turn into selfish. Simulation experiments are carried out through Network Simulator 2 and the performance are analyzed based on varying the number of selfish sensor nodes, number of sensor nodes and range of detection threshold.

Keywords

• Information security
• Routing overhead
• Selfish sensor nodes
• Semi Markov process
• Wireless sensor networks