The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) in a wide range of applications and it has become a hot research area …

Latest advancements in micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) and wireless
communication technology, opens the way for the growth in applications of wireless sensor …

Owing to the limited resources of the sensor nodes, designing energy-efficient routing
mechanism to prolong the overall network lifetime becomes one of the most important …

The past few years have witnessed increased interest among researchers in cluster-based
protocols for homogeneous networks because of their better scalability and higher energy …

Purpose In particular, this paper aims to systematically analyze a few prominent wireless
sensor network (WSN) clustering routing protocols and compare these different approaches …

Hierarchical routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a very important topic that has
been attracting the research community in the last decade. Typical hierarchical routing is …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the key enabling technologies for the internet
of things (IoT). WSNs play a major role in data communications in applications such as …

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network which includes spatially distributed
autonomous devices using sensors to monitor environmental or physical conditions. WSN is …

Prolonging the network lifetime for a reasonable period while meeting users' needs is key in
developing a data gathering algorithm for WSNs. Clustered sensor networks are considered …

Clustering in wireless sensor networks has been widely discussed in the literature as a
strategy to reduce power consumption. However, aspects such as cluster formation and …