An Inter-Cluster Gateway-Based Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol

Author

Shi Weiren ; Yan Mingmeng ; Huang He ; Xu Lei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Autom., Chongqing Univ., Chongqing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In the existing clustering protocol, cluster heads (CHs) usually transmit data to Sink directly with long-distance transmission and huge energy consumption. To solve this problem, an inter-cluster gateway-based energy-efficient routing protocol (IGER) is proposed in this paper. It makes cluster heads evenly distributed, chooses appropriate nodes to be gateways for inter-cluster communication to share CHs´ energy consumption. Simulations show that IGER consumes very little energy, effectively balances energy consumption of all nodes, and prolongs the network lifetime, outperforms LEACH, PEGASIS and iHEED.

Keywords

internetworking; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; LEACH; PEGASIS; cluster heads; iHEED; inter-cluster gateway-based energy-efficient routing protocol; long-distance transmission; network lifetime; wireless sensor networks; Energy consumption; Logic gates; Niobium; Nominations and elections; Protocols; Routing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5601398

Filename

5601398