The design of hierarchical routing protocol for wireless sensor network

Abstract

Energy efficiency is the main challenge for wireless sensor networks. Power-aware schemes send the same data through multiple paths, which causes data redundancy and a huge amount of energy drainage within the network. Use of a head node for a cluster can be a better solution. The proposed algorithm creates several clusters, selects a cluster head, aggregates the data, and sends that to base station through other cluster heads. Simulation result shows that it helps to increase network longevity.