Simulation of Topology Performance of Wireless Sensor Network Based Multi-hop Routing
Lilik Hasanah, Heru Yuwono, Ahmad Aminudin dan Budi Mulyanti

Departmen Pendidikan Fisika, FPMIPA, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154 Indonesia
Departmen Pendidikan Teknik Elektro, FPTK, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154 Indonesia

Abstract

Here is a simulation to find out the performance of WSN network with different topology and size using Multi-hop routing, and its energy usage. The WSN network in simulations is made with Arduino-based hardware with a compatible radio transmitter module. The simulation is done in MATLAB software environment. In the simulation used two network topologies, namely Random topology and Grid and network size ranging from 9 nodes up to 256 sensor nodes. From the simulation it is found that Grid topology has better performance especially on the number of small nodes, while Random topology has more stable performance and better than Grid topology at large number of nodes. The life time of the WSN network is not affected by the number of sensor nodes in the network, but by the amount of energy available on each sensor node.

Keywords: Toology performance, wireless sensor network, multi-hop routing

Topic: Physics