AN ENERGY EFFICIENT NEIGHBOR NODE BASED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM (EENNC) FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) encompasses a number of inexpensive energy constrained in sensor nodes which collects the data from sensing remote location and transmit the data towards the base station. By applying the clustering technique, power consumption is reduced thereby prolonging the network life time. This paper addresses the cluster formation based on neighbor node and residual energy, which overcomes the drawbacks such as network early dead, excess energy consumption, poor efficiency in packet delivery, link stability problem, etc., that occurs in the existing clustering protocol. The simulation result shows that the proposed algorithm increased performance in packet delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption, network life time and is more suitable for high mobility environment and large scale wireless sensor networks.