An Quantitative Study on the Impact of N -Tiers in the Performance of Topology Control Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Network S

Recent years showed a wide range of applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). For a WSN, Topology Control is crucial to obtain an energy efficient network without affecting the connectivity and other properties. In this paper the sequence of strategies carried out to obtain a better scheme for a topology control in terms of energy is discussed. An quantitative study is also done on the impact of N-tiers in the performance of the various proposed algorithms. Comparison on one tier, two tier and three tier architecture using the proposed methodology is also made. The results showed the effectiveness of the different approaches proposed.