Energy Aware Static Clustering Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Clustering in wireless sensor network (WSN) is an efficient approach to provide prolonged network life time, scalability and data aggregation.Clustering also conserves the limited energy resources, for this reason in this paper; we propose an energy aware static clustering routing protocol for WSN.The specificity of this work is that the network is partitioned into static clusters that contain a Primary Cluster Head (P-CH) and a Secondary Cluster Head (S-CH) and both of them are selected based on energy.The simulation results show that the new protocol proposed in this paper extends the network lifetime and balances the energy consumption of the network nodes.