Homogeneous and heterogeneous energy schemes for hierarchical cluster based routing protocols in WSN: A survey

Abstract

Recent technological advances in WSN's have led to so many new hierarchical cluster based protocols especially designed for sensor networks where energy metric is essentially concerned to increase the network life time. Therefore the energy of the sensor node is a crucial parameter in the protocol design to increase the lifetime of a sensor node in the network. In this concern much research already done in recent years, analysis different aspects like as, energy efficiency, power consumption, routing, Quality-of-service, cluster formation and so on. Each routing protocol is examined and explore under hierarchal type. In this paper we mainly focus on surveying hierarchal cluster based routing protocols for two different environments such as homogeneous and heterogeneous. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.