Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesOptimizing energy consumption in hierarchical clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Optimizing Energy Consumption in Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks"
By M. Hossein Fotouhi Ghazvini, Maryam Vahabi, Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid and Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah
in the Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Malaysia International Conference on Communications. pp. 550-555, 14-17 May 2007

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

"Energy Conserving Architectures and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks"
by Frank Comeau, William Robertson, Shyamala C. Sivakumar, and William J. Phillips
in the Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science 4-7 Jan 2006Data dissemination strategies and communication protocols that minimize the use of energy can significantly prolong the lifetime of a sensor network. Sensor network is a distributed event-based system that differs from traditional communication network. Transporting information in an energy efficient manner is critical in operating this network for a long period of time. Hierarchical routing protocols are actively studied in terms of the energy usage, packet latency, and security in the presence of node compromise attacks. In this paper, we focus on hierarchical routing protocols and networks with homogeneous nodes are used to design an energy efficient wireless sensor network.