Mobility and Energy Conscious Clustering Protocol for Wireless Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces MECP, a distributed clustering protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks that enhances energy efficiency, mobility awareness, and fault tolerance, addressing limitations of static-network assumptions.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel mobility-aware clustering protocol that incorporates movement and energy data, improving performance in highly mobile sensor networks.

Findings

Enhanced energy efficiency in mobile scenarios

Improved fault tolerance with cluster head failure handling

Effective mobility and energy-aware clustering mechanism

Abstract

In this paper we present a distributed clustering protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks. A large majority of research in clustering and routing algorithms for WSNs assume a static network and hence are rendered inefficient in cases of highly mobile sensor networks, which is an aspect addressed here. MECP is an energy efficient, mobility aware protocol and utilizes information about movement of sensor nodes and residual energy as attributes in network formation. It also provides a mechanism for fault tolerance to decrease packet data loss in case of cluster head failures.