A fault tolerant dynamic clustering protocol of wireless sensor networks

Lutful Karim*, Nidal Nasser, Tarek Sheltami

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Energy efficiency in the clustering protocols in highly desired in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The Dynamic Static Clustering (DSC) protocol is an energy efficient clustering protocol; however, it does not provide any fault tolerance mechanism. Moreover, the non-Cluster Head nodes send data to the Cluster Heads (CH) in every time slot of a frame allocated to them using TDMA scheme, which is an energy consuming process. Considering these limitations of the DSC protocol, we have proposed a more energy efficient and fault tolerant Dynamic Static Clustering (FT-DSC) protocol of WSN to enhance the performance of DSC. The performance of the proposal protocol has been tested by means of simulation and compared against the original DSC protocol. Simulation results show that the FT-DSC protocol has better performance than the DSC protocol in terms of energy efficiency and reliability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Keywords

  • Clustering protocol
  • DSC
  • Fault tolerant etc.
  • LEAC
  • LESCS
  • Wireless sensor network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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