Energy Balanced and Efficient Clustering Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this paper the energy balanced and efficient clustering method based on balance of energy consumption of nodes in WSN is proposed, which may be applied to any WSN. The almost static centralized protocol that differs from previous methods is proposed, the main feature of which is that the sinks transmit most of control message and process most of data. First, EBEC method is proposed, which optimizes by considering energy consumption on transmitting and receiving data, energy consumption on the reclustering and hot-spot problem that be optimized individually in previous works. In order to implement this method, VW BAK-C algorithm is used by introducing the concept of variable weighted Euclid distance to k-clustering algorithm. Second, the previous clustering methods are classified into random method and the method based on QoS according to the characteristic of cluster head rotation, and average of total energy consumption of nodes is analyzed mathematically. The proposed method is compared and analyzed. Third, the performance of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing with other clustering methods through simulation.