Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2008.876.882ShakirM. WangW. 6200876Power conservation is an issue which has to be primarily
considered in wireless sensor networks. Since we have the limitation of
battery life so an appropriate transmit power has to be chosen while guaranteeing
the maximal connectivity at the same time. It is in our best interest
to have each node transmit at lowest possible power thus prolonging the
network lifetime and preserving the connectivity. So this study investigate
the most optimum transmit power while considering the data rates and how
densely the nodes are deployed. The effects of the interference powers
have to be minimized by reaching towards the minimal transmit power. We
have worked out on the interference powers introduced due to different
ways of deployments of wireless sensor networks over a certain area and
we used the graphical approach to look at the effects of distance from
the central receiving nodes and the varying densities on the BER. We have
also investigated the phenomena through simulations and the main aim being
to optimize the performance of sensor networks by observing their behavior
in various regularly placed deployments.]]>Gupta, P. and P.R. Kumar,200046388404Agarwal, S., R. Katz, S.V. Krishnamurthy and S.K. Dao, 20012001pp: 5966Ramanathan, R. and R. Rosales-Hain,20002000pp: 404413Elbatt, T. and A. Ephremides, 200437485Naryanaswamy, S., V. Kawadia and P.R. Kumar,20022002pp: 156162Panichpapiboon, S., G. Ferrari and O.K. Tonguz, 20052005pp: 593597Wattenhofer, R., L. Li, P. Bahl and Y. Wang, 20012001pp: 13881397