Hierarchical routing is an efficient way to lower energy consumption within a cluster. Due to
the characteristics of wireless channels, multi-hop communications between a data source …

Wireless sensor networks require energy-efficient data transmission because the sensor
nodes have limited power. A cluster-based routing method is more energy-efficient than a …

Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) is one of the most popular distributed
cluster-based routing protocols in wireless sensor networks. Clustering algorithm of the …

Designing energy efficient communication protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to
conserve the sensors' energy is one of the prime concerns. Clustering in WSNs significantly …

Clustering has been used as one of energy-efficient mechanisms for data routing in wireless
sensor networks. In hierarchical routing approaches, cluster heads are responsible for …

Clustering provides an effective method for prolonging the lifetime of a wireless sensor
network. Current clustering algorithms usually utilize two techniques; selecting cluster heads …

Hierarchical cluster-based routing protocols are considered as one of the most efficient
routing protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSN) due to its higher energy efficiency …

Energy saving and effective utilization are an essential issue for wireless sensor network.
Most previous cluster based routing protocols only care the relationship of cluster heads and …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been broadly studied with advances in ubiquitous
computing environment. Because the resource of a sensor node is limited, it is important to …

Due to the nonuniform node distribution, the energy consumption among nodes are more
imbalanced in cluster-based wireless sensor networks. Based on this problem, in this paper …