Energy Concerns inWireless Sensor and Actor Networks: A Simulation Case

With the advancement of new technologies, such as 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), there is an increasing interests in heterogeneous and autonomous Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. Wireless Sensor and Actor Network (WSAN), as an emerging autonomous ICT system, will soon be an important part of our technological reality. One of the main challenges in autonomous systems is power management, which is strongly related to network lifetime. In this paper, we evaluate by simulations different actor selection methods, in terms of energy consumption and the whole network's energy efficiency.