@conference { , title = {Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.}, abstract = {Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently become an integral part of a wide range of systems such as surveillance, target tracking, security and health management systems. WSNs deploy a large number of sensor nodes that cooperate to complete a sensing task. Large scale WSNs usually suffer from energy efficiency and quality of service issues. Although different hierarchical cluster-based approaches have been proposed by the research community, reliability, heavy load and load balancing are still open issues to be addressed. This paper proposes a new hierarchical and cluster-based topology formation and routing protocol. This protocol aims to guarantees reliability and avoids the heavy load issue by adapting the EIGRP wired protocol to the sensor context.}, conference = {International Conference on Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications : INDS 2014}, organization = {Bejaia, Algeria}, publicationstatus = {Unpublished}, url = {http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6851}, keyword = {681 Precision instruments & other devices, TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Networks, Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security, AI and Technologies, Wireless sensor network, Cluster-based routing, load balancing.}, author = {Eshaftri, Mohamed and Essa, Alsnousi and Qasem, Mamoun and Romdhani, Imed and Al-Dubai, Ahmed} }