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An Adjustable Load Balancing Cluster-based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks consist of hundreds to thousands of low-power multifunctioning sensor nodes, operating in an unattended environment, with limited computational and sensing capabilities. Since the sensor nodes are equipped with small, often irreplaceable, batteries with limited power capacity, it is essential that the network be energy efficient in order to maximize the life span of the network.
Hierarchical routing is an efficient way to lower energy consumption within a cluster, performing data aggregation and fusion.Within a clustering organization, intra-cluster communication can be single hop or multihop, as well as inter-cluster communication. Multihop communication between a data source and a data sink is usually more energy efficient than direct transmission because of the characteristics of wireless channel. However, the hot-spots problem arises when using the multihop forwarding model in inter-cluster communication. Because the cluster heads closer to the data sink are burdened with heavy relay traffic, they will die much faster than the other cluster heads.
This paper presents an cluster-based routing protocol named An Adjustable Load Balancing Cluster-based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks(ALBAC).The aim of the work is to let the cluster size be small nearby base station because cluster heads closer to the base station need relay more data.We wnat to let every cluster heads consume same energy. Simulation results show that our unequal clustering mechanism clearly improves the network lifetime over LEACH and BCDCP.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724109-053219
Date24 July 2009
CreatorsLin, Yan-lin
ContributorsWei-Kuang Lai, Chun-Hsin Wu, Rung-Hung Gau, Wen-Shyong Hsieh, Chung-Ming Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724109-053219
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