A strategic deployment and cluster-header selection for wireless sensor networks

Author

Kaur, Tarandeep ; Baek, Jinsuk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Winston-Salem State Univ., Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Volume

55

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

11/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1890

Lastpage

1897

Abstract

A new cluster-based approach to increase the overall network lifetime of the wireless sensor networks is proposed in this paper. We first consider a strategic deployment especially when there are heterogeneous sensor nodes to be deployed. With the strategic deployment, the cluster header selection scheme is proposed. Unlike conventional approaches, we develop our scheme by designing the network with multiple-sized fixed grids while taking into account the arbitrary-shaped area sensed by the sensor nodes. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme alleviates high energy consumption and a short lifetime of the wireless sensor networks supported by existing schemes.

Keywords

wireless sensor networks; cluster-header selection; heterogeneous sensor nodes; network lifetime; strategic deployment; wireless sensor networks; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Mechanical sensors; Mechanical systems; Micromechanical devices; Routing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor network, Network lifetime, Cluster header selection, and Strategic deployment.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2009.5373747

Filename

5373747