Increased demand of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in various applications has made it a hot research area. Several challenges imposed which include energy conservation, scalability, limited network resources etc. with energy conservation being the most important. Clustering improves the energy efficiency by making high power nodes as cluster heads (CHs) which reduces the chance of energy deple...

Routing Protocols are engaged in a vigorous fashion to boost up energy efficiency in WSNs. In this paper, we propose a novel routing protocol; Minimum distance Based Energy efficiency using Hemisphere Zoning with Advanced Divide-and-Rule scheme (M-BEHZAD), to maximize network lifespan, throughput and stability period of the sensors deployed in an un-attended network zone. To accomplish these ob...

In high-mobility cognitive radio networks (CRNs), the fast topology changes increase the complexity of the routing scheme. In this paper, we propose a novel CRN routing scheme that considers the path stability and node capacity. First, a realistic mobility model is proposed to describe the movement of highly mobile airborne nodes and estimate the link stability performance based on node movemen...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are comprised of energy constrained nodes. This limitation has led to the crucial need for energy-aware protocols to produce an efficient network. The concept of heterogeneity has been introduced in a WSN by deploying a large number of low power sensor nodes and a small number of more powerful nodes to serve as cluster heads (CHs). We propose a sleep scheduling s...

In past years there has been increasing interest in field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). One of the major issue of WSNs is development of energy efficient routing protocols. Clustering is an effective way to increase energy efficiency. Mostly, heterogenous protocols consider two or three energy level of nodes. In reality, heterogonous WSNs contain large range of energy levels. By analyzing...

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), hierarchical clustering is an efficient approach for lower energy consumption and extended network lifetime. In cluster-based multi-hop communications, a cluster head (CH) closer to the sink is loaded heavier than those CHs farther away from the sink. In order to balance the energy consumption among CHs, we development a novel cluster-based routing protocol f...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of large number of sensor nodes which perform their sensing, processing and transmitting tasks independently. Due to irreplaceable and limited battery life of the sensor nodes, energy consumption is the main hindrance in WSNs. Even in the presence of failures such as battery life depletion, node failures, etc., the energy of each node must be reserved for ...

Network lifetime and energy efficiency are crucial performance metrics used to evaluate wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Decreasing and balancing the energy consumption of nodes can be employed to increase network lifetime. In cluster-based WSNs, one objective of applying clustering is to decrease the energy consumption of the network. In fact, the clustering technique will be considered effect...

Data aggregation protocols are required in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to improve the data accuracy and extend the network lifetime by reducing the energy consumption. The existing Data Aggregation-Optimal LEACH (DAO-LEACH) protocol for WSN is enhanced in terms of security and fault-tolerance based on Gracefully Degraded Data Aggregation (GDDA) to ensure the integrity of the aggregated data...

This study proposes a novel power-efficient and anti-fading clustering based on a cross-layer that is specific to the time-varying fading characteristics of channels in the monitoring of coal mine faces with wireless sensor networks. The number of active sensor nodes and a sliding window are set up such that the optimal number of cluster heads (CHs) is selected in each round. Based on a stable ...