ENERGY BALANCING WITH CLUSTERING IN TREE BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Computer Science & Engineering

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a system composed of a large number of low-cost micro-sensors. This network is used to collect and send various kinds of messages to a base station (BS). WSN consists of low-cost nodes with limited battery power and the battery replacement is not easy for WSN with thousands of physically embedded nodes, which means energy efficient routing protocol should be employed to offer a long-life work time. To achieve the aim, there is a need not only to minimize total energy consumption but also to balance WSN load. Researchers have proposed many protocols such as LEACH, HEED, PEGASIS, TBC and PEDAP. General Self-Organized Tree-Based Energy Balancing routing protocol (GSTEB) builds a routing tree using a process where, for each round, BS assigns a root node and broadcasts this selection to all sensor nodes. Subsequently, each node selects its parent by considering only itself and its neighbor’s information, thus making GSTEB a dynamic protocol. Simulation results shows that GSTEB has a better performance than other protocols in balancing energy consumption, thus prolonging the lifetime of WSN.

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