An Agent Cluster Based Routing Protocol for Enhancing Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Clustering is a popular research area in designing routing protocols in the field of wireless sensor network. This paper proposes an agent cluster based routing protocol which will subdivide the cluster into independent subgroups according to the satisfaction list. The independent sub groups are associated with an agent node that can communicate to the cluster head. The proposed agent cluster based routing algorithm is created keeping into consideration to reduce the energy consumption while transmitting data from node to cluster head. The agent node is chosen based on the satisfaction list which reduces the chances of agent node die out problem thus enhancing the network reliability and lifetime. Applications such as green house, agriculture field monitoring, where reliability and energy efficiency more important than data transmission rate this proposed protocol is suitable to implement.