A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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

Abstract

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are usually used as a key effective solution to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. Despite many works on clustering in WSNs, this issue is still, however, in its infancy as most existing solutions suffer from long and iterative clustering cycles. In an attempt to fill in this gap, we propose a new cluster-based protocol, referred to as Load-balancing Cluster Based Protocol (LCP) that introduces a new inter-cluster approach to increase network lifetime. This new protocol rotates continuously the election of the Cluster Head (CH) election in each cluster, and selects the node with the highest residual energy in each round. Extensive simulation experiments show that our proposed approach effectively balances energy consumer among all sensor nodes and increases network lifetime compared to other clustering protocols.

Citation

Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015). A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In I. C. Society (Ed.), 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (1209-1214). https://doi.org/10.15439/2015F193

• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
• Start Date: Sep 13, 2015
• End Date: Sep 16, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Sep 13, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Nov 9, 2015
• Publication Date: Nov 9, 2015
• Deposit Date: Aug 10, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 9, 2015
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1209-1214
• Book Title: 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)
• ISBN: 9788360810668
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15439/2015F193
• Keywords: WSNs; Distributed clustering; Network lifetime; Routing
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8906
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2015F193