Design of Evolutionary Algorithm Based Unequal Clustering for Energy Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN)play a vital role in several real-time applications ranging from military to civilian.Despite the benefits of WSN,energy efficiency becomes a major part of the challenging issue in WSN,which necessitate proper load balancing amongst the clusters and serves a wider monitoring region.The clustering technique for WSN has several benefits:lower delay,higher energy efficiency,and collision avoidance.But clustering protocol has several challenges.In a large-scale network,cluster-based protocols mainly adapt multi-hop routing to save energy,leading to hot spot problems.A hot spot problem becomes a problem where a cluster node nearer to the base station(BS)tends to drain the energy much quicker than other nodes because of the need to implement more transmission.This article introduces a Jumping Spider Optimization Based Unequal Clustering Protocol for Mitigating Hotspot Problems(JSOUCP-MHP)in WSN.The JSO algorithm is stimulated by the characteristics of spiders naturally and mathematically modelled the hunting mechanism such as search,persecution,and jumping skills to attack prey.The presented JSOUCPMHP technique mainly resolves the hot spot issue for maximizing the network lifespan.The JSOUCP-MHP technique elects a proper set of cluster heads(CHs)using average residual energy(RE)to attain this.In addition,the JSOUCP-MHP technique determines the cluster sizes based on two measures,i.e.,RE and distance to BS(DBS),showing the novelty of the work.The proposed JSOUCP-MHP technique is examined under several experiments to ensure its supremacy.The comparison study shows the significance of the JSOUCPMHP technique over other models.

An unequal clustering routing protocal for wireless sensor networks based on genetic algorithm

The imbalance of energy consumption in wireless sensor networks(WSNs)easily results in the“hot spot”problem that the sensor nodes in a particular area die due to fast energy consumption.In order to solve the“hot spot”problem in WSNs,we propose an unequal clustering routing algorithm based on genetic algorithm(UCR-GA).In the cluster head election phase,the fitness function is constructed based on the residual energy,density and distance between nodes and base station,and the appropriate node is selected as the cluster head.In the data transmission phase,the cluster head selects single-hop or multi-hop communication mode according to the distance to the base station.After we comprehensively consider the residual energy of the cluster head and its communication energy consumption with the base station,an appropriate relay node is selected.The designed protocal is simulated under energy homogeneous and energy heterogeneity conditions,and the results show that the proposed routing protocal can effectively balance energy consumption,prolong the life cycle of network,and is appicable to heterogeneous networks.

A Coverage-Aware Unequal Clustering Protocol with Load Separation for Ambient Assisted Living Based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Ambient Assisted Living(AAL) is becoming an important research field. Many technologies have emerged related with pervasive computing vision, which can give support for AAL. One of the most reliable approaches is based on wireless sensor networks(WSNs). In this paper, we propose a coverage-aware unequal clustering protocol with load separation(CUCPLS) for data gathering of AAL applications based on WSNs. Firstly, the coverage overlap factor for nodes is introduced that accounts for the degree of target nodes covered. In addition, to balance the intra-cluster and inter-cluster energy consumptions, different competition radiuses of CHs are computed theoretically in different rings, and smaller clusters are formed near the sink. Moreover, two CHs are selected in each cluster for load separation to alleviate the substantial energy consumption difference between a single CH and its member nodes. Furthermore, a backoff waiting time is adopted during the selection of the two CHs to reduce the number of control messages employed. Simulation results demonstrate that the CUCPLS not only can achieve better coverage performance, but also balance the energy consumption of a network and prolong network lifetime.

Energy Efficient Unequal Fault Tolerance Clustering Approach

For achieving Energy-Efficiency in wireless sensor networks(WSNs),different schemes have been proposed which focuses only on reducing the energy consumption.A shortest path determines for the Base Station(BS),but fault tolerance and energy balancing gives equal importance for improving the network lifetime.For saving energy in WSNs,clustering is considered as one of the effective methods for Wireless Sensor Networks.Because of the excessive overload,more energy consumed by cluster heads(CHs)in a cluster based WSN to receive and aggregate the information from member sensor nodes and it leads to failure.For increasing the WSNs’lifetime,the CHs selection has played a key role in energy consumption for sensor nodes.An Energy Efficient Unequal Fault Tolerant Clustering Approach(EEUFTC)is proposed for reducing the energy utilization through the intelligent methods like Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO).In this approach,an optimal Master Cluster Head(MCH)-Master data Aggregator(MDA),selection method is proposed which uses the fitness values and they evaluate based on the PSO for two optimal nodes in each cluster to act as Master Data Aggregator(MDA),and Master Cluster Head.The data from the cluster members collected by the chosen MCH exclusively and the MDA is used for collected data reception from MCH transmits to the BS.Thus,the MCH overhead reduces.During the heavy communication of data,overhead controls using the scheduling of Energy-Efficient Time Division Multiple Access(EE-TDMA).To describe the proposed method superiority based on various performance metrics,simulation and results are compared to the existing methods.

An energy-driven unequal clustering protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Due to the limitation of energy resources, energy efficiency is a key issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Clustering is proved to be an important way to realize hierarchical topology control, which can improve the scalability and prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, an energy-driven unequal clustering protocol (EDUC) for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks is proposed. EDUC includes an unequal clustering algorithm and an energy-driven adaptive cluster head rotation method. The unequal size of clusters can balance the energy consumption among clusters, and the energy-driven cluster head rotation method can achieve the balance of energy consumption among nodes within a cluster, which reduces the waste of energy. Simulation experiments show that EDUC balances the energy consumption well among the cluster heads and prolongs the network lifetime.

Unequal clustering algorithm for WSN based on fuzzy logic and improved ACO

This paper proposes a novel energy efficient unequal clustering algorithm for large scale wireless sensor network （WSN） which aims to balance the node power consumption and prolong the network lifetime as long as possible. Our approach focuses on energy efficient unequal clustering scheme and inter-cluster routing protocol. On the one hand, considering each node＇s local information such as energy level, distance to base station and local density, we use fuzzy logic system to determine one node＇s chance of becoming cluster head and hand, adaptive max-min ant colony optimization is used to estimate the corresponding competence radius. On the other construct energy-aware inter-cluster routing between cluster heads and base station （BS）, which balances the energy consumption of cluster heads and alleviates the hot spots problem that occurs in multi-hop WSN routing protocol to a large extent. The confirmation experiment results have indicated the proposed clustering algorithm has more superior performance than other methods such as low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy （LEACH） and energy efficient unequal clustering （EEUC）.

Integrated dominating and hit set-inspired unequal clusteringbased data aggregation in wireless sensor networks

Purpose-In wireless sensor networks,improving the network lifetime is considered as the prime objective that needs to be significantly addressed during data aggregation.Among the traditional data aggregation techniques,cluster-based dominating set algorithms are identified as more effective in aggregating data through cluster heads.But,the existing cluster-based dominating set algorithms suffer from a major drawback of energy deficiency when a large number of communicating nodes need to collaborate for transferring the aggregated data.Further,due to this reason,the energy of each communicating node is gradually decreased and the network lifetime is also decreased.To increase the lifetime of the network,the proposed algorithm uses two sets:Dominating set and hit set.Design/methodology/approach-The proposed algorithm uses two sets:Dominating set and hit set.The dominating set constructs an unequal clustering,and the hit set minimizes the number of communicating nodes by selecting the optimized cluster head for transferring the aggregated data to the base station.The simulation results also infer that the proposed optimized unequal clustering algorithm(OUCA)is greater in improving the network lifetime to a maximum amount of 22%than the existing cluster head selection approach considered for examination.Findings-In this paper,lifetime of the network is prolonged by constructing an unequal cluster using the dominating set and electing an optimized cluster head using hit set.The dominator set chooses the dominator based on the remaining energy and its node degree of each node.The optimized cluster head is chosen by the hit set to minimize the number of communicating nodes in the network.The proposed algorithm effectively constructs the clusters with a minimum number of communicating nodes using the dominating and hit set.The simulation result confirms that the proposed algorithm prolonging the lifetime of the network efficiently when compared with the existing algorithms.Originality/value-The proposed algorithm effectively constructs the clusters with a minimum number of communicating nodes using the dominating and hit sets.The simulation result confirms that the proposed algorithm is prolonging the lifetime of the network efficiently when compared with the existing algorithms.

Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol with Multi-Hop Fuzzy Logic for Wireless Networks

A Wireless Sensor Network(WSN)becomes a newer type of real-time embedded device that can be utilized for a wide range of applications that make regular networking which appears impracticable.Concerning the energy produc-tion of the nodes,WSN has major issues that may influence the stability of the system.As a result,constructing WSN requires devising protocols and standards that make the most use of constrained capacity,especially the energy resources.WSN faces some issues with increased power utilization and an on going devel-opment due to the uneven energy usage between the nodes.Clustering has proven to be a more effective strategy in this series.In the proposed work,a hybrid meth-od is used for reducing the energy consumption among CHs.A Fuzzy Logic-based clustering protocol FLUC(unequally clustered)and Fuzzy Clustering with Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol(FCERP)are used.A Fuzzy Clustering with Energy Efficient Routing Protocol(FCERP)reduces the WSN power usage and increases the lifespan of the network.FCERP has created a novel cluster-based fuzzy routing mechanism that uses a limit value to combine the clustering and multi-hop routing capabilities.The technique creates uneven groups by using fuz-zy logic with a competitive range to choose the Cluster Head(CH).The input variables include the distance of the nodes from the ground station,concentra-tions,and remaining energy.The proposed FLUC-FCERP reduces the power usage and improves the lifetime of the network compared with the existing algorithms.