A New Approach of Energy Efficient Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Lots of real-time applications of wireless sensor network requires maximization of network lifetime. Many clustering approaches have been proposed but they suffer from uneven clusters which eventually make the network load unbalanced. In this work, we have suggested a two-stage energy proficient balanced clustering method which will balance the network load. We considered the parameters residual energy, intra-cluster cost, inter cluster cost, communication distance. We compared our proposed protocol with a recent clustering protocol CH-leach. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves better load balance, increase the network lifetime with energy balance clusters and lower node death rate.