1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Energy of Flat VS Clustering Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comparative Study

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344664,
        author={Yan  Jin and  Ling  Wang and  Xiaozong   Yang and Yoohwan Kim},
        title={Energy of Flat VS Clustering Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comparative Study},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2007},
        month={4},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344664}
    }
    
  • Yan Jin
    Ling Wang
    Xiaozong Yang
    Yoohwan Kim
    Year: 2007
    Energy of Flat VS Clustering Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comparative Study
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344664
Yan Jin1, Ling Wang1, Xiaozong Yang1, Yoohwan Kim2
  • 1: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
  • 2: School of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used to collect surrounding data by multi-hop. As sensor networks have the limited and not rechargeable energy resource, energy efficiency is an important design issue for its topology. In this paper, we derive the exact mathematical expression for the flat and clustering schemes, respectively. Then the energy consumption of different schemes are compared. Motivated by the comparison, we propose an energy-efficient multi-tier clustering algorithm EEMC. EEMC terminates in O(log logN) iterations given N nodes, incurs low energy consumption across the network. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm is effective in prolonging the large-scale network lifetime and achieving more power reductions.