… , a new trust aware, secured and energy efficient clustering protocol along with a new cluster
head election mechanism is proposed to facilitate cluster based secure routing in WSNs. …

… for any clustering protocol. In this paper, a heterogeneous network based cluster routing
protocol named … In this paper, a heterogeneous network based cluster routing protocol named …

… cluster-based protocols to reduce energy consumption by the SNs. These clustering techniques
used in WSNs are based … for efficient handling of clustering operations. To understand …

… system of bees and based on a typical bee … CI based protocols with least communication
and processing cost. One major drawback of the protocol is its flat nature or non-cluster based …

… Hussain and AW Matin, “Energy efficient hierarchical clusterbased routing for wireless sensor
networks,” Jodrey School Comput. Sci., Acadia Univ. Wolfville, Wolfville, NS, Canada, Rep. …

… to overcome the energy hole problem in wireless sensor networks. The standard deviation
parameter of this function plays an important role in energy balancing and network lifespan. …

… Depending on the suggested protocol, the simulation results show that the energy consumption
in the static wireless sensor network was less than the dynamic wireless sensor network. …

… For a large transmission range, such as 100 m, which results in only one cluster based on
the ICR protocol, the network dies out earlier because of the larger distance that a packet has …

… information from the field sensors to a remote base … a new energy-efficient clustering
protocol for WSNs, which can minimize total network energy dissipation while maximizing network …

… GA based routing protocols. Although many clustered based protocols are discussed in the
current … , very few well known protocols are discussed here based on the interest of our work. …