Performance analysis of clustering protocols in normally and exponentially distributed wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), clustering technique is effectively used to reduce energy consumption in battery-operated sensor nodes. In this paper, the performance of typical clustering protocols in normally and exponentially distributed WSNs is analyzed and compared via extensive simulation. Every sensor node in WSNs is powered by batteries with limited energy capacity and, thus, the network lifetime that is directly affected by the energy efficiency of sensor nodes is the most important performance metric. Our performance study shows that the balanced clustering algorithm (BCA) achieves longer network lifetime than the other protocols. Furthermore, the improvement effect is better and better as the non-uniformity is increased.

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