Energy Efficient Improved Routing Strategy for ZigBee Network



Based on the research of ZigBee Network's present routing strategy, this paper proposes a routing strategy with the goal to save network's energy cost and to balance data loading among nodes. The new strategy improves ZigBee Network's cluster-tree topology structure and the present ZigBee Routing(ZBR) strategy which is based on cluster-tree algorithm and AODVjr algorithm. The strategy tries its best to reduce routing overhead and to protect low energy nodes at the same time. According to simulation results, it proves that strategy can effectively reduce energy cost and balance loading, successfully prolongs network's lifetime.

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Author: ZHAGN Qing, LIU Shu-mei, CHAI Qiao-lin
Publisher: 1. Fine Arts School of Shandong University, Jinan 250100; 2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250016
Keywords:ZigBee networks, routing strategy, energy efficient, load balancing, OMNET++ simulation