Minimizing energy consumption to maximize network lifetime is one of the crucial concerns
in designing wireless sensor network routing protocols. Cluster-based protocols have shown …

Energy conservation is the main issue in wireless sensor networks. Many existing clustering
protocols have been proposed to balance the energy consumption and maximize the battery …

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 …

In wireless sensor networks, one of the most important constraints is the low power
consumption requirement. For that reason, several hierarchical or cluster-based routing …

Sensors have very scarce resources in terms of memory, energy and computational
capacities. Wireless sensor network is composed of a large number of such sensor nodes …

Wireless sensor network (WSN) typically consists of a large number of low cost wireless
sensor nodes which collect and send various messages to a base station (BS). WSN nodes …

Emerging technological advances in wireless communication and networking have led to
the design of large scale networks and small sensor units with minimal power requirements …

WSN faces a challenge in energy consumption. Because the sensor nodes in WSN are
provided energy by compact batteries and the data transmission is frequent, the energy …

Clustering provides an effective method for improving the performance of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs). In this paper, we study that different number of clusters leads to different …

Load balancing using clustering method is one of the most practical solutions, regarding to
energy limitation in wireless sensor networks. Clustering protocols have to ensure reliability …