An Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
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| Title | An Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks |
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| Abstract | WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) can collect reliable and accurate information in distant and hazardous environments, and can be used in National Defence, Military Affairs, Industrial Control, Environmental Monitor, Traffic Management, Medical Care, Smart Home, etc. The sensor whose resources are limited is cheap, and depends on battery to supply electricity, so it’s important for routing to efficiently utilize its power. In this paper, an energy-efficient Single-Hop Active Clustering (SHAC) algorithm is proposed for wireless sensor networks. The core of SHAC has three parts. Firstly, a timer mechanism is introduced to select tentative cluster-heads. By analyzing relation between time of timer and residual energy, it is known that time of timer is inversely proportional to residual energy of nodes so a timer mechanism can balance the residual energy of the whole network nodes which improves the network energy efficiency. Secondly, a cost function is proposed to balance energy-efficient of each node. Finally, an active clustering algorithm is proposed for single-hop homogeneous networks. Through both theoretical analysis and numerical results, it is shown that SHAC prolongs the network lifetime significantly against the other clustering protocols such as LEACH-C and EECS. Under general instance, SHAC may prolong the lifetime by up to 50% against EECS. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2011-07-01 |
| Source | Journal of Networks Vol 6, No 7 (2011): Special Issue on Selected Best Papers of the International Workshop CSEEE 2011 |
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