Performance Evaluation of ID Assignment Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks gains tremendous popularity, as evidenced by the increasing number of applications for these networks. The limitations of the wireless sensor nodes, such as their finite energy and moderate processing capability restrict the performance of wireless sensor networks. Efficient node addressing schemes with minimum communication cost are important for the optimum initialization of wireless sensor network. Several energy efficient solutions have been proposed for ID assignment in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we explore and compare two categories of ID assignment schemes namely proactive and reactive in terms of energy consumption, communication overhead and packet size.