A Load Balancing Uneven Clustering approach for wireless sensor networks

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10.2991/icmia-16.2016.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wireless sensor networks; Distributed approach; Clustering; Network lifetime; Energy efficiency

Abstract

Energy consumption is critical to wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and cluster based protocols are energy efficient. Cluster heads (CHs) selection and clustering affect the network lifetime greatly. To prolong the network lifetime, a load balancing unequal clustering approach (LBUC) is proposed. LBUC forms unequal clusters to balance the energy consumption among the CHs and the data is transmitted to base station (BS) by multi-hop. The CHs are selected according to the residual energy and the distance to neighbor nodes. LBUC restricts the CHs count and the max nodes count of a cluster. The experimental results indicate that LBUC forms appropriate clusters and prolongs the network lifetime.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Y. L. Jia
AU  - C. Y. Zhang
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - A Load Balancing Uneven Clustering approach for wireless sensor networks
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation and Automation (ICMIA 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 307
EP  - 311
SN  - 1951-6851
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