Power Assignment Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we propose a local adaptive transmission power control method to improve the network connectivity and energy efficiency etc. for wireless sensor networks. Path loss exponent and energy control coefficient are studied carefully to show the minimum cover district of each node more accurately based on network environment and the application scenarios. Our proposed local adaptive power control method can also provide self-healing function which makes the network maintain the best performance for a long time when a few nodes exhaust their energy or a fresh batch of nodes are deployed. Simulation results show that our proposed method is very effective in establishing a good logical network structure and prolonging the network lifetime.