A Weighted Energy Efficient Clustering (WEEC) for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of hundreds or thousands of nodes and are broadly used for collecting data from the environment. In this type of network nodes communicate with each other and send their data to the base station. Since sensor nodes are battery limited, it is crucial to minimize the a...

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Published in2011 Seventh International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks pp. 146 - 151
Main Authors Behboudi, N., Abhari, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2011
Subjects
Algorithm design and analysis
Base stations
clustering
Clustering algorithms
Energy efficiency
Head
Protocols
routing
wireless sensor network
Wireless sensor networks
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ISBN9781457721786
1457721783
DOI10.1109/MSN.2011.13

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Summary:Wireless sensor networks consist of hundreds or thousands of nodes and are broadly used for collecting data from the environment. In this type of network nodes communicate with each other and send their data to the base station. Since sensor nodes are battery limited, it is crucial to minimize the amount of energy they dissipate for communication. The LEACH protocol is an elegant clustering algorithm for sending information to base station. It uses clustering, therefore each node only communicates with their cluster head nodes and then those cluster heads communicate with base station. In this paper we improved the LEACH algorithm and proposed a weighted energy efficient clustering algorithm (WEEC) algorithm for wireless sensor networks. We take into consideration the location of each node while clusters are forming. The simulation result proves that our proposed scheme noticeably increases the life time of the network.
ISBN:9781457721786
1457721783
DOI:10.1109/MSN.2011.13