Energy-Efficient Rotating Clustering with Load Balancing for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks

Subject Areas : Information Technology in Engineering Design (ITED) Journal

Pedram Pasdar ¹ , رضا شیبانی ² , Mojtaba Asgari ³

1 - Department of Computer Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
2 - گروه مهندسی کامپیوتر، واحد مشهد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، مشهد، ایران
3 - Department of Computer Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.

Received: 2023-12-08 Accepted : 2024-06-26 Published : 2024-08-14

Keywords: clustering, load balancing, energy efficiency, network lifetime, wireless sensor network,

Abstract :

Clustering is a common method for prolonging a wireless sensor network lifetime. We can achieve higher energy efficiency by implementing multi-hop communication. Because of the induced load on the middle clusters, they die faster in comparison to the clusters on the borders. There is an efficient protocol for Rotating Energy-Efficient Clustering (REECHD). In this article, we introduced a load-balancing technique for the REECHD protocol to solve the energy hole issue. Initially, the base station calculates a maximum and minimum cluster range based on node density. We calculate the cluster range for each layer. The final values for these cluster ranges are then used as inputs in the REECHD protocol. The energy efficiency of this technique is compared with the REECHD protocol. The results show that our proposed technique enhances the REECHD in the matter of the first node dies (FND) and half node dies (HND) measure criteria (respectively 15% and 11.5% for 250 node) and also it prolongs the network lifespan by balancing the load on inter-cluster communications.