Cluster-based adaptive and dynamic routing protocol to enhance the performance of wireless sensor network

Abstract

Generally, the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are comprised of ecumenical wireless sensor nodes which are very small in size, limited onboard battery-powered, self-operated, cooperative, and autonomous in nature. The sensor nodes are deployed densely, in a spatially distributed manner in the application area. These nodes are used to sense desired data from the region of interest, and after that, it is processed and communicated to the base station (BS) directly or via some intermediate nodes, using a dedicated routing protocol. In many of the applications, the data to be sensed from the region of interest is very sensitive, crucial, time-bounded, and very important. In these applications, the routing protocols do the important job of communication of the sensed data from a node to the BS. It is very important to choose the most suitable and appropriate routing protocol, which is best and perfectly fits for a specific application. So, a more reliable, consistent, dependable approach that checks the availability of sensor nodes and uses the advantages of clustering approach is proposed which is more rigid, flexible, and improves the longevity and overall performance of the network. The analysis of proposed approach is also discussed with the existing routing protocol, LEACH.