MULTI-HOP DISTRIBUTED ENERGY EFFICIENT
HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING SCHEME FOR
HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
International Journal on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (IJFCST), 5 (5):
18 (September 2015)DOI: 10.5121/ijfcst.2015.5502
Abstract
Wireless sensor network (WSNs) are network of Sensor Nodes (SNs) with inherent sensing, processing and
communicating abilities. One of current concerns in wireless sensor networks is developing a stable
clustered heterogeneous protocol prolonging the network lifetime with minimum consumption of battery
power. In the recent times, many routing protocols have been proposed increasing the network lifetime,
stability in short proposing a reliable and robust routing protocol. In this paper we study the impact of
hierarchical clustered network with sensor nodes of two-level heterogeneity. The main approach in this
research is to develop an enhanced multi-hop DEEC routing protocol unlike DEEC. Simulation results
show the proposed protocol is better than DEEC in terms of FDN (First Dead Node), energy consumption
and Packet transmission.