Simulation Investigation of State-of-Art Cluster-Based Routing Protocols in WSN

Abstract

The battery-powered sensors are equipped with a finite amount of energy in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The majority of WSN applications generally concentrate on extending network life by utilizing various strategies. One of the most effective methods for enhancing the functionality of WSN has shown to be cluster-based routing algorithms. The WSN's clustering-based techniques control network operation to make the greatest use of the available energy and extend network lifetime. Due to the constrained energy, processing, and communication range of sensor nodes, cluster-based protocols allow the network to function under these restrictions. Network clustering has been demonstrated as an effective method for data gathering and routing in WSNs over the last two decades. When compared to other technologies, it offers a number of benefits in terms of energy efficiency, scalability, even energy distribution, etc. In this paper, we have performed simulation investigation of recently proposed cluster-based routing algorithms and also proposed Improved Zone-based Stable Election Protocol. The simulation is performed in MATLAB software and performance metrics of network lifetime, first node dead, throughput, etc. are taken into consideration to examine the performance.