Authors : Hawa Madani Traore, Kamilia Kamardin, Suriani Mohd Sam, Kamarul Zaman Panatik, Salwani Mohd Daud, Nurul Aini Bani and Hafiza Abas
Abstract: Hierarchical routing is one of the efficient techniques for routing the sensed data from the source node to the base station. Energy efficient cluster based routing protocol deals with cluster formation based on different events, cluster head selection, aggregation of the sensed data within a cluster and sending that to the base station in an energy efficient way. It resolved the drawbacks in most of the existing protocol that does not check the occurrence of events at the time of cluster formation phases. Thus energy efficient cluster-based routing protocol performs efficiently than Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Clustered scheme for wireless sensor network (EEHC) and smart cluster Head Selection Scheme for Clustering algorithms in wireless sensor network (SCHS) but it does not deal with the association mechanism when the node lies in the transmission range of two cluster heads. On such condition, it is inefficient if the node joins any one of the two cluster heads randomly. In this research, EECBRP is improved using location based node association mechanism in which node sends its association request to the cluster head which has the shortest distance to it. The research was conducted using the Network Simulator NS-2. Three metrics, the throughput, number of dead nodes and average residual energy was used to compare the performance of the two protocols. Analysis of the network trace file shows that the proposed protocol I-EECBRP achieve increased throughput and average residual energy and reduced dead nodes count compare to EECBRP.
Hawa Madani Traore, Kamilia Kamardin, Suriani Mohd Sam, Kamarul Zaman Panatik, Salwani Mohd Daud, Nurul Aini Bani and Hafiza Abas, 2017. Improved Energy Efficient Cluster Based Routing Protocol (I-EECBRP) for Wireless Sensor Network. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 8757-8763.