Title
A fault-tolerant energy-efficient clustering protocol of a wireless sensor network.
Abstract
Energy efficiency in specific clustering protocols is highly desired in wireless sensor networks. Most existing clustering protocols periodically form clusters and statically assign cluster heads (CHs) and thus are not energy efficient. Every non-CH node of these protocols sends data to the CH in every time slot of a frame allocated to them using the time division multiple access scheme, which is an energy-consuming process. Moreover, these protocols do not provide any fault tolerance mechanism. Considering these limitations, we have proposed an efficient fault-tolerant and energy-efficient clustering protocol for a wireless sensor network. The performance of the proposed protocol was tested by means of a simulation and compared against the low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy and dynamic static clustering protocols. Simulation results showed that the fault-tolerant and energy-efficient clustering protocol has better performance than both the low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy and dynamic static clustering protocols in terms of energy efficiency and reliability. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1002/wcm.1240
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor network,clustering protocol,DSC,LEACH,LESCS,FT-EEC,fault-tolerant
Energy efficient clustering,Cluster (physics),Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Fault tolerance,Time division multiple access,Cluster analysis,Wireless sensor network,Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14.0
2.0
1530-8669
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lutful Karim113113.99
Nidal Nasser270669.27
Tarek Sheltami37513.36