Title
An unequal clustering routing protocol for energy-heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
Abstract
Unbalanced energy consumption in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) results in the “energy-hole” problem. In this paper, a novel Energy-Balanced Unequal Clustering Protocol (EBUCP) is proposed to address the energy-hole problem. In EBUCP, three kinds of sensor nodes named normal nodes, advanced nodes and super nodes are deployed in a circular region which is divided into multilayer rings. Based on the optimal number of cluster heads and the definition of energy balance, the unequal cluster radius in each layer can be obtained by EBUCP. Also, EBUCP ensures no isolated node exists in the process of cluster formation. Simulation results demonstrate that, by taking the advantage of unequal clustering and energy heterogeneity, EBUCP achieves better performance in terms of stable period and network throughput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCChinaW.2015.7961582
2015 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China - Workshops (CIC/ICCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (HWSNs),unequal clustering,energy-hole,routing protocol
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Computer network,Energy balance,Mobile wireless sensor network,Throughput,Cluster analysis,Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Distributed computing,Routing protocol
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-9702-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Na Bao100.34
Guangjie Han21890172.76
Li Liu318112.42
Xu Jiang463.46
Shu Lei52927216.78