An Enhanced Distributed Energy-Efficient Clustering (DEEC) Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a warm area of research. WSNs consist of large number of sensor nodes deployed randomly in the sensor field. But, it suffers with several shortcomings such as energy imbalance, processing power, storage, transmission range and mitigates energy hole problems. Therefore it's a tough task to design and develop an optimized routing protocol for WSNs. Hence, this research paper mainly focuses on the energy consumption and network lifespan issues of WSNs and presents an improved version of Distributed Energy-Efficient Clustering (DEEC) protocol. To enhance the network lifetime and reliability of DEEC protocol, three improvements are incorporated in the algorithm and the proposed algorithm named as improved DEEC (IDEEC). From experiment section, it is stated that proposed improvements make protocol more robust and efficient in terms of lifetime of nodes, stability and energy consumption in comparison to other algorithm being compared.