A novel energy efficient routing scheme for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In the current rapid developing and smart world, the wireless sensor networks domain is among the most emergent fields with plenty of applications such as healthcare, wildlife, environmental monitoring, defense, and landslide detection. Distribution of cluster heads along with the selection of cluster heads is essentially vital for optimizing various network performance parameters. In this paper, a novel energy efficient routing scheme based on probabilistic sector wise clustering has been proposed, which results in energy saving in conjunction with superior network lifetime for wireless sensor networks. In the proposed routing technique, the sensing field is divided into multiple sectors and clusters in five different types. Nodes in the sector can communicate directly with the base station in one-hop or through the gateway node in two-hops. Nodes in the cluster communicate to the base station through the cluster head in three-hops. The simulation results of all five types are compared in terms of their life span. Life span of the network is analyzed by considering the round number in which the first node dies, the round number till which 80% of the nodes are alive, 50% of nodes are alive and 20% of the nodes are alive.