A Closer look on Clustering Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Manpreet Kaur · IOSR Journal of Engineering · 2014
A wireless sensor network is basically a collection of nodes that are organized into a cooperative network.Each node consists of processing capability that contain multiple types of memory and have a transceiver, a power source and accommodate various sensors.These sensor nodes can sense, measure and collect information from the environment and, based on some local decision process, they can transmit the sensed data to the user.In our work we have studied the various cluster formation algorithms.In this study clustering of the nodes are considered with the approach of reducing energy consumption of nodes and a protocol is presented.Due to network clustering there is scalability potential in such a network.According to frequent change of cluster head nodes load distribution is performed in the cluster and eventually increase the network lifetime.