In this paper, a distance based Cluster head selection algorithm is proposed for improving the sensor network life time. This protocol achieves a good performance in terms of lifetime by balancing the energy load among all the nodes. This clustering technique help to prolong the life of wireless sensor network, especially in hostile environment where battery replacement of individual sensor nod...

The most important factor within the wireless sensor network is to have effective network usage and increasing the lifetime of the individual nodes in order to operate the wireless network more efficiently. Many routing protocols have been developed for this purpose. One of these is the LEACH protocol presented by Wendi Heinzelman, which is especially well known as a simple and efficient cluste...

Wireless sensor network has a wide range of applications in various fields, extending rapidly its area due to the development of technologies both in sensor and IT. However, technology of efficient battery energy utilization cannot catch up with the rapidly developing technology in releva nt fields. Therefore, energy efficiency becomes the critical factor in wireless sensor networks that requir...

Clustering is a technique that can effectively reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes. In self-organizing clustering strategies, sensors elect themselves to be cluster-heads independently. This cannot guarantee the even distribution of cluster-heads over the entire sensor-network field or even the election of an optimal percentage of cluster-heads. We proposed Two-Tier Clustering in [1] ...

Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy network (RPL) topology attacks can downgrade the network performance significantly by disrupting the optimal protocol structure. To detect such threats, we propose a RPL-specification, obtained by a semi-auto profiling technique that constructs a high-level abstract of operations through network simulation traces, to use as reference for verifying the no...

In earlier works several data aggregation schemas based methods have been proposed to overcome the problems of the privacy in wireless sensor networks. These methods provides efficient result to analysis of secure data with traditional aggregation because cluster heads can straightforwardly comprehensive the cipher texts not including decryption; accordingly, reduces the transmission overhead i...

Clustering is an effective technique used to reduce energy consumption and extend the lifetime of wireless sensor network (WSN). The characteristic of energy heterogeneity of WSNs should be considered when designing clustering protocols. We propose and evaluate a novel distributed energy-efficient clustering protocol called DCE for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, based on a Double-phase C...

This paper presents Fuzzy and Ant Colony Optimization Based Combined MAC, Routing, and Unequal Clustering Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (FAMACROW) consisting of several nodes that send sensed data to a Master Station. FAMACROW incorporates cluster head selection, clustering, and inter-cluster routing protocols. FAMACROW uses fuzzy logic with residual energy, number of neighb...

-------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------------The Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consisting of a large number of sensors that are effective for gathering data in a variety of environments, as the sensor operate on battery which is of limited power. To support high scalability and better data aggregation i...

Aimed at the limited energy of nodes in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) and the heavy load of cluster heads in clustering routing algorithms, this paper proposes a dynamic layered dual-cluster routing algorithm based on Krill Herd optimization in UWSNs. Cluster size is first decided by the distance between the cluster head nodes and sink node, and a dynamic layered mechanism is esta...