Balancing energy consumption using cluster based approach in wireless sensor network

• Published in: 2014 Twentieth National Conference on Communications (NCC) pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Munjal, Amit, Tripathi, Rajiv Kr, Singh, Y. N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-02-2014
• Subjects: Base stations; Clustering; Clustering algorithms; Energy consumption; Equations; Lifetime; Mathematical model; Protocols; Wireless sensor network; Wireless sensor networks
• DOI: 10.1109/NCC.2014.6811336

Balancing the energy consumption in all the nodes to enhance the lifetime of wireless sensor network is an important research issue in the wireless sensor network. The energy consumption for different nodes will vary with the distance from the base station. The difference between energy consumption among the sensor nodes may be small, large or moderate. In this paper, a new energy efficient clustering based approach is proposed, that attempts to equalize the energy consumption between different clusters in wireless sensor network. The proposed protocol is simulated and compared with an existing LEACH protocol.