(EDsHEED) Enhanced Simplified Hybrid, Energy-efficient, Distributed Clustering for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Recently, WSN (Wireless sensor Network) technology application has expanded in almost all aspects of life. This is because of their ability and ease of implementation of the technologies to solve problems. Although its implementation is very flexible and practical, there are several aspects that need to be investigated, there are several things need to be investigated in the technology development of wireless sensor network, such as lifetime constraints, unreliable and communication and need for self-configuration. Different from the traditional ad-hoc network which have limited network size of implementation, the wireless sensor network technology can be applied in a much various ways. Routing protocol is one of the method that ensure the high scalability of wireless sensor network. sHEED (Simplified Hybrid., Energy-efficient, Distributed Clustering) is one of the routing protocol used in wireless sensor network. This research proposes protocol improvement of sHEED which is reducing intra-cluster communication cost by creating multi-level cluster routing protocol based on sHEED. This study consider a set of cluster head, head set for cluster routing. This mechanism expect to reduce the energy consumption, which increase the network lifetime and also reduce energy consumption caused by multi hop communication as a result from larger area networks.