Santhosh Kumar, G; Sitara, A; Poulose Jacob,K(I. K. International Publishing House, November 24, 2010)
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Abstract:
Clustering combined with multihop communication is a promising solution to cope with the energy requirements
of large scale Wireless Sensor Networks. In this work, a new cluster based routing protocol referred to as Energy
Aware Cluster-based Multihop (EACM) Routing Protocol is introduced, with multihop communication between
cluster heads for transmitting messages to the base station and direct communication within clusters. We propose
EACM with both static and dynamic clustering. The network is partitioned into near optimal load balanced
clusters by using a voting technique, which ensures that the suitability of a node to become a cluster head is
determined by all its neighbors. Results show that the new protocol performs better than LEACH on network
lifetime and energy dissipation
Description:
International Journal of Information Processing, 4(3), 9-16, 2010