An Enhanced routing Technique to improve the Network Lifetime of Cognitive Sensor Network

In terms of using the technology of Cognitive Radio, a Cognitive Sensor Network (CSN) is varied from the conventional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). According to the interaction with the surrounding environment, the transmitter parameters can be modified in the sensor nodes of CSN adaptively. In CSNs, routing is one of the important components. Based on the capability of spectrum-aware, the schemes of routing of CSNs are district from other networks. The changeable spectrum resource dynamically should be understood by the routing scheme to establish a path of reliable forwarding by the adjustment of routing policy adaptively. In CSNs, reliable routing is an essential thing but still not a well-explored problem in CSNs. Packet drops due to spectrum unavailability and buffer overflows seriously affects the connectivity of the nodes. The whole network’s lifetime and the data delivery rate are impacted by the prolonging packet drops. To increase the nodes’ lifetime, the addressing of this drawback in the phase of routing should be done. Before the making of routing decisions, a new routing technique is proposed named as Drop factor based energy efficient routing technique with the use of packet drop ratio and power dissipation metric of the spectrum links. With the total number of users in the routing path, the drop factor is computed. Power dissipation is calculated based on the transmitted data packets versus the amount of total consumed energy. This method reduces the drop ratio by avoiding the high drop factor nodes from being participating in the routing process. It always ensures that the data would be handled by the low dropping ratio nodes, thus the network’s lifetime is improved. The proposed method achieves delay of 25%, throughput 326 kbps, energy consumption 13%. Routing overhead 43% for 1000 number of nodes.