An Uniform Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The purpose of routing protocol is to achieve efficient data collection by making use of the limited resource in wireless sensor networks, which prolongs the lifetime of networks. Energy efficiency of the single hop or multi-hop communication mode is researched taking the uneven energy consumption caused by solely single hop or multi-hop mode into account. A hybrid communication mode in which nodes alternate between single hop and multi-hop mode with certain time proposed based on even cluster protocol. The simulation result verifies that hybrid mode provides the better energy efficiency as well as evener energy dissipation.