Density Controlled Divide-and-Rule Scheme for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new energy-efficient routing scheme for wireless sensor networks that uses density control and optimal cluster head selection to improve coverage and energy utilization, validated through MATLAB simulations.

Contribution

Introduces a novel density controlled clustering method with fixed cluster head numbers to enhance energy efficiency and coverage in WSNs.

Findings

Improved energy efficiency demonstrated in simulations.

Reduced coverage and energy holes.

Enhanced network lifetime.

Abstract

Cluster based routing technique is most popular routing technique in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Due to varying need of WSN applications efficient energy utilization in routing protocols is still a potential area of research. In this research work we introduced a new energy efficient cluster based routing technique. In this technique we tried to overcome the problem of coverage hole and energy hole. In our technique we controlled these problems by introducing density controlled uniform distribution of nodes and fixing optimum number of Cluster Heads (CHs) in each round. Finally we verified our technique by experimental results of MATLAB simulations.