Hybrid Multihop Partition-Based Clustering Routing Protocol for WSNs
Chaoming Wang, Yuan Zhang, Xuewen Wang, Zhiyong Zhang · IEEE Sensors Letters · 2018
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have great potential in the application of partition parameter observation; however, the high correlation with applications makes WSNs working in specific environments require specific work patterns. In this article, a hybrid multihop partition-based clustering (HMPBC) routing protocol is proposed, which can fit a specific environment, meet interests and needs, balance network load, and prolong the network lifetime. In HMPBC, both the single-chain structure within cluster and the cluster heads selection depending on residual energy are operated by self-organization, and the region minimum spanning tree structure among clusters is established by the base station. The proposed protocol is simulated in MATLAB with the network model of 200 m × 200 m 400 nodes. Simulation results show that HMPBC has 33.31% and 39.70% longer lifetime, smaller fluctuations of average energy consumption of each node per round, and more precise measurement of zone parameters than LEACH-MLOR and the energy efficient hybrid multihop clustering scheme.