Energy efficient clustering in wireless sensor networks

The popularity of WSN has garnered great heights once its applications had reached diverse fields like military to civilian domains. The Wireless sensor network routing protocols can be categorized into flat routing and hierarchical or clustering routing depending upon their network architecture. In our work we try to poise the energy efficiency at node level and increasing the network lifetime by proposing an Energy Efficient cluster based Hierarchical Routing Scheme. The design principle of ENEFC is that the role of Cluster Head should be rotated among all nodes and the cluster sizes should be carefully determined at different parts of the network to minimize energy consumption and also to extend the network lifetime and energy efficiency.