Abstract-Wireless sensor networks have potential to monitor environments for both military and civil applications. Due to inhospitable conditions these sensors are not always deployed uniformly in the area of interest. Since sensors are generally constrained in on-board energy supply, efficient management of the network is crucial to extend the life of the sensors. Sensors' energy cannot support long haul communication to reach a remote command site and thus requires many levels of hops or a gateway to forward the data on behalf of the sensor. In this paper we propose an algorithm to network these sensors in to well define clusters with lessenergy-constrained gateway nodes acting as cluster-heads, and balance load among these gateways. Simulation results show how our approach can balance the load and improve the lifetime of the system.
REF propose a load-balanced clustering scheme which increases the lifetime of the network.
Load-balanced clustering of wireless sensor networks
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2003. ICC '03.
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2003. ICC '03.
Computer Science