A fixed clustering protocol based on random relay strategy for EHWSN

Abstract

In Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EHWSN), the communication protocol will directly affect the final performance of the network, so it is necessary to study the communication protocol based on EHWSN. In this paper, for the low-cost fixed clustering problem, a fixed clustering protocol RRCEH is based on random relaying. Our proposed RRCEH abandons the inefficient inter-cluster communication method of the traditional fixed clustering protocol. To coordinate the data upload of the cluster head, RRCEH allocates different random relay vectors to each ring area of the network, and combines all the random relay vectors into a random relay matrix of RRCEH. In each communication round, the cluster head node randomly selects its relay target node to send data according to the probability distribution in the random relay vector in the area. For two different cluster head configuration scenarios, by optimizing the random relay matrix, RRCEH can effectively reduce the network's configuration requirements for cluster head energy harvesting capability, thus reducing the deployment cost of EHWSN.