Title: Energy competent clustering algorithm for minimisation of holes in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Authors: Chinmaya Kumar Nayak; Satyabrata Das

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VSS University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, 768018, India ' Department of Information Technology, VSS University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, 768018, India

Abstract: A sensor network, commonly referred to as a wireless sensor network (WSN) is made up of a large number of small-scale autonomous wireless sensor nodes. These sensor nodes are used to gather the desired information, starting in a target area. The power necessary for information communication is very high in comparison to computation due to long range radio transmission, resulting in the depletion of a high amount of energy from the batteries of sensor nodes. It mainly creates node destruction and hole formation. So it is necessary to design energy competent methods for such networks to enhance the lifespan of the WSN. As a solution in this paper, a protocol for a heterogeneous network called stable election protocol (SEP) implemented jointly through low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) for load complementary with an increased amount of communication packets to the base station of the sensor network. This can be done by sharing the energy load uniformly with each and every sensor node in a heterogeneous network by selecting cluster heads.

Keywords: SEP; stable election protocol; WSN; wireless sensor network; lifespan of network; power efficiency; cluster-head.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSE.2024.138347

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2024 Vol.14 No.3, pp.247 - 259

Received: 25 Jun 2020
Accepted: 09 Nov 2020
Published online: 01 May 2024 *

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