A Research on Cluster Based Routing Methodologies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract: The design of Wireless sensor networks has currently significant attention due to their limitless potential and has great value of applications such as not closely connected environmental monitoring and target tracking. This has been motivated by the development and availability of small, low cost and intelligent sensors. A wireless sensor network is a collection of sensor nodes prearranged into a cooperative network. These sensors nodes are outfitted with limited processing and computing resources. Since radio transmission and reception consumes a lot of power, one of the critical suspicions in wireless sensor network is the inherent limited battery power within the sensor nodes. Therefore battery power is one of the vital parameter for an algorithm design to increase the lifespan of the sensor node. Recent researches have been carried out in investigating diverse aspects in connection with low power routing protocols. In this paper, the focus is mainly driven towards the review of energy efficient cluster–based available routing protocols for wireless sensor network. Also a methodology by which optimal routing can be achieved in the context of energy is portrayed artistically.

Keywords: Wireless sensor network, network life span, cluster-based routing, distributed clustering, energy efficiency.