I-Min: An Intelligent Fermat Point Based Energy Efficient Geographic Packet Forwarding Technique for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks

Energy consumption and delay incurred in packet delivery are the two important metrics for measuringthe performance of geographic routing protocols for Wireless Adhoc and Sensor Networks (WASN). Aprotocol capable of ensuring both lesser energy consumption and experiencing lesser delay in packetdelivery is thus suitable for networks which are delay sensitive and energy hungry at the same time. Thusa smart packet forwarding technique addressing both the issues is thus the one looked for by anygeographic routing protocol. In the present paper we have proposed a Fermat point based forwardingtechnique which reduces the delay experienced during packet delivery as well as the energy consumed fortransmission and reception of data packets.