AM-DisCNT: Angular Multi-hop DIStance based Circular Network Transmission Protocol for WSNs

TL;DR

AM-DisCNT is a novel energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks that employs circular deployment and energy-based cluster-head selection to enhance network lifetime, throughput, and stability.

Contribution

It introduces a new protocol using circular deployment and energy-based cluster-head selection tailored for heterogeneous WSNs, improving performance over existing protocols.

Findings

AM-DisCNT outperforms existing protocols in network lifetime.

It achieves higher throughput and system stability.

The protocol ensures even energy consumption across the network.

Abstract

The nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) contain limited energy resources, which are needed to transmit data to base station (BS). Routing protocols are designed to reduce the energy consumption. Clustering algorithms are best in this aspect. Such clustering algorithms increase the stability and lifetime of the network. However, every routing protocol is not suitable for heterogeneous environments. AM-DisCNT is proposed and evaluated as a new energy efficient protocol for wireless sensor networks. AM-DisCNT uses circular deployment for even consumption of energy in entire wireless sensor network. Cluster-head selection is on the basis of energy. Highest energy node becomes CH for that round. Energy is again compared in the next round to check the highest energy node of that round. The simulation results show that AM-DisCNT performs better than the existing heterogeneous protocols on the basis of network lifetime, throughput and stability of the system.