Prolonging Network Lifetime and Data Accumulation in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

Research on Wireless Sensor Networks has often assumed homogeneous nodes. In reality, homogeneous nodes havedifferent capabilities like different levels of initial energy and drain rate. This leads to the research on heterogeneous networkswhere two or more types of nodes are considered within the network and the more powerful sensor nodes act as cluster heads. In this paper, we have analyzed a heterogeneous network with three types of nodes having different initial energy levels. Asingle hop clustering topology has been assumed and analyzed the network performance in terms of lifetime. Simulationresults show that the network lifetime is much better in proposed protocol than the existing protocols