Performance Optimization of WSN Using Deterministic Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol: A Review
Rajesh Chaudhary · IOSR Journal of Engineering · 2014
DEC (Deterministic Energy Efficient Clustering) protocol is dynamic, distributive, self-organizing and more efficient in terms of energy than any other of the existing protocols.DEC uses an easy approach which reduces computational overhead-cost to self-organize the sensor network.A WSN is a specialized wireless network made up of large number of sensors and at least one base station in order to collect data or information from the fields where they are deployed.The foremost difference between WSN and the traditional wireless networks is that sensors are extremely sensitive to energy consumption.Energy saving is a vital issue while designing the wireless sensor networks [12].The critical point of these sensor nodes is that they generally consume much energy while making communications and reduce the battery and network lifetime.So it is essential to design effective and energy aware protocols in order to enhance the life time of the network.In this paper, DEC (Deterministic Energy Efficient Clustering) protocol is described in order to improve the energy efficiency of the wireless sensor networks.