Marques, BrunoRicardo, Manuel2017-01-302017-01-302011-03-04Bruno Marques, Manuel Ricardo, “Application-Driven design to extend WSN lifetime”, CNRS 2011, Proceedings of CNRS 2011 – 1st Portuguese Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, March 2011.ISBN 978-989-96001-4-0http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4187he lifetime of a WSN depends on the energy of the nodes. As soon as nodes run out of energy, they get disconnected from the WSN. This paper proposes an Application Driven solution that increases the WSN lifetime by limiting the routing and forwarding functions of the network mainly to nodes running the same applications. The solution is evaluated against AODV, and the results obtained show gains of about 30%engWireless sensor network (WSN)6LoWPAN;IEEE 802.15.4Low power routing protocolsApplication-Driven WSNjournal article