An optimal power conservation cluster based routing algorithm using Fuzzy Verdict Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks have found thousands of applications duo to new era of technologies like Internet of Things and Cloud to simplify the management of complex problems. Energy conservation in wireless sensor nodes is important concern to most of its applications. Duo to inherent issue of power limitation of sensor nodes, enhancing the specified network life time is the prime requirement. Therefore, an efficient routing protocol is needed to construct any real time applications of wireless sensor networks. The proposed, Fuzzy Verdict Mechanism Cluster Protocol (FVMCP) is used to construct knowledge based system effectively for the eligibility of the sensor node to be elected as a Cluster Header(CH). The eligibility of CH nodes based on their respective sensor nodes has important characteristics like duty cycle, energy level, geographical position, and number of hops. The simulation of FVMCP algorithm carried out in Mat Lab which shows enhancement of the performance accuracy up to 17 to 21 % in compassion with hard clustering methods.