Performance Comparison in Terms of Communication Overhead for Wireless Sensor Network Based on Clustering Technique

Wireless sensor network refers to a group of spatially distributed and dedicated sensors for monitoring and recording the physical conditions of environment like temperature, sound, pollution levels, humidity, wind speed with direction and pressure. Sensors are self powered nodes which also possess limited processing capabilities and the nodes communicate wirelessly through a gateway. The capability of sensing, processing and communication found in sensor networks lead to a vast number of applications of wireless sensor networks in areas such as environmental monitoring, warfare, education, agriculture to name a few. In the present work, the comparative evaluation of communication overhead for the wireless sensor network based of on clustering technique is carried out. It has been be observed that overhead in cluster based protocol is not much dependent upon update time. Simulation a result indicates that cluster based protocol has low communication overheads compared with the BBM based protocol when sink mobility is high.