An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Eshaftri, Mohamed A.; Al-Dubai, Ahmed Y.; Romdhani, Imed; Yassein, Muneer Bani

Abstract

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are among the effective solutions to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. During the iterative re-clustering process, extra energy and time are consumed especially at the setup phase of every round. To address these issues, we propose a new cluster-based protocol namely, Dynamic Load-balancing Cluster Based Protocol (DLCP). Our protocol introduces a new inter-cluster approach to increase the network lifetime, rotates continuously the election of the Cluster Head (CH) in each cluster, and selects the node with the highest residual energy in each round. When the energy of CHs falls below a fixed threshold (TCH), a new clustering process is created. Extensive simulation experiments show that our proposed approach balances effectively the energy consumption among all sensor nodes and increases the network lifetime compared to other clustering protocols.

Citation

Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015). An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In L. Chen, M. Steinbaur, I. Khalil, & G. Anderst-Kotsis (Eds.), MoMM 2015 Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (189-194). https://doi.org/10.1145/2837126.2837149

• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia - MoMM 2015
• Start Date: Dec 11, 2015
• End Date: Dec 13, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Dec 31, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Dec 11, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 11, 2015
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2015
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 189-194
• Book Title: MoMM 2015 Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
• ISBN: 9781450334938
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2837126.2837149
• Keywords: WSNs, Wireless Sensor Networks, Dynamic Load-balancing Cluster Based Protocol (DLCP); network lifetime; clustering protocols
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9324