Wireless sensor networks are energy constraint networks. Energy efficiency, to prolong the network for a longer time is critical issue for wireless sensor network protocols. Clustering protocols are energy efficient approaches to extend the lifetime of network. Intra-cluster communication is the main driving factor for energy efficiency of clustering protocols. Intra-cluster energy consumption ...

Mobile Ad-hoc Network is a kind of wireless network. It is a backbone of new generation advanced communication technology. MANET is an ideal applicant for rescue and emergency situation due to its independence of connected devices of fixed wires. This paper represents a work on trust based system in MANET cluster that can be used to improve the performance of the network even in the existence o...

In recent years, the applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have grown enormously. In WSNs there is one mechanism used to enlarge the lifespan of network and provide more efficient functioning procedures that is clustering. Clustering is a process to subdivide the sensing field of sensor network into number of clusters. Each cluster selects a leader called cluster head. A cluster head ...

Since there are many problems of traditional extended clustering algorithm in wireless sensor network like short extended time, over energy consumption, too many deviated position the of cluster head nodes and so on, this paper proposes the EESA algorithm. The algorithm makes many improvements on the way of dividing clusters, strategy of electing the cluster head and construction method of data...

Energy is the main constraint in wireless sensor network. Hence to increase the lifetime of WSN, the requirement is to have an energy efficient routing protocol .For this purpose the hierarchical routing architecture is used wherein the whole network is divided into group of clusters and only cluster head is responsible for forwarding the data to base station directly. In hierarchical based arc...

Aiming at that there are some heterogeneous nodes in special applications, time synchronization algorithm for heterogeneous WSNs based on cluster (TSBC) is proposed in this paper. In every round of TSBC, time synchronization is started by sink node, every heterogeneous node sends cluster head request message to sink node when it receives the time synchronization start message, and take itself a...

Energy is the main issue in the WSN as these networks contains the battery operated nodes. The energy consumption can be reduced by efficient routing in the network. The efficient routing needs the proper cluster head selection along with the proper cluster size. Moreover, the cluster shape is also an important factor to optimize the clustering. This paper studies various routing schemes in the...

Clustering provides an efficient management method and energy balancing scheme for ad-hoc sensor networks. Cluster head is the most important role in a cluster and it acts as a local data coordinator and maintains cluster information. Once malicious nodes or lower energy nodes are selected as cluster heads, the system would be greatly affected. Thus selection of trusted cluster heads with prope...

The mobile ad-hoc network consists of energy constraint devices called nodes communicating through radio signals forming a temporary network i.e. nodes are continuously switching from one network to another. To minimize the power consumption, we form the clusters with an elected cluster head (Service Provider) based on any cluster head selection strategy. As the topology of this network is time...