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A particle swarm optimization based energy efficient cluster head selection algorithm for wireless sensor networks

01 Oct 2017-Wireless Networks (Springer US)-Vol. 23, Iss: 7, pp 2005-2020
TL;DR: An energy efficient cluster head selection algorithm which is based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) called PSO-ECHS is proposed with an efficient scheme of particle encoding and fitness function and the results are compared with some existing algorithms to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
Abstract: Clustering has been proven to be one of the most efficient techniques for saving energy of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, in a hierarchical cluster based WSN, cluster heads (CHs) consume more energy due to extra overload for receiving and aggregating the data from their member sensor nodes and transmitting the aggregated data to the base station. Therefore, the proper selection of CHs plays vital role to conserve the energy of sensor nodes for prolonging the lifetime of WSNs. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient cluster head selection algorithm which is based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) called PSO-ECHS. The algorithm is developed with an efficient scheme of particle encoding and fitness function. For the energy efficiency of the proposed PSO approach, we consider various parameters such as intra-cluster distance, sink distance and residual energy of sensor nodes. We also present cluster formation in which non-cluster head sensor nodes join their CHs based on derived weight function. The algorithm is tested extensively on various scenarios of WSNs, varying number of sensor nodes and the CHs. The results are compared with some existing algorithms to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
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TL;DR: A efficient CH election scheme that rotates the CH position among the nodes with higher energy level as compared to other to elect the next group of CHs for the network that suits for IoT applications, such as environmental monitoring, smart cities, and systems is proposed.
Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) groups specialized transducers that provide sensing services to Internet of Things (IoT) devices with limited energy and storage resources. Since replacement or recharging of batteries in sensor nodes is almost impossible, power consumption becomes one of the crucial design issues in WSN. Clustering algorithm plays an important role in power conservation for the energy constrained network. Choosing a cluster head (CH) can appropriately balance the load in the network thereby reducing energy consumption and enhancing lifetime. This paper focuses on an efficient CH election scheme that rotates the CH position among the nodes with higher energy level as compared to other. The algorithm considers initial energy, residual energy, and an optimum value of CHs to elect the next group of CHs for the network that suits for IoT applications, such as environmental monitoring, smart cities, and systems. Simulation analysis shows the modified version performs better than the low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy protocol by enhancing the throughput by 60%, lifetime by 66%, and residual energy by 64%.

317 citations


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  • ...PSO-ECHS is discussed in [21], where PSO-based CH selection is made using parameters like node-to-node distance, distance to BS, and residual energy....

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01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: The Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) is employed to choose an optimal cluster head from a group of nodes and the outputs of the proposed methodology are compared with traditional approaches LEACH, DEEC and compared with some existing methods.
Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of a large number of spatially distributed sensor nodes connected through the wireless medium to monitor and record the physical information from the environment. The nodes of WSN are battery powered, so after a certain period it loose entire energy. This energy constraint affects the lifetime of the network. The objective of this study is to minimize the overall energy consumption and to maximize the network lifetime. At present, clustering and routing algorithms are widely used in WSNs to enhance the network lifetime. In this study, the Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) is employed to choose an optimal cluster head from a group of nodes. The cluster head selection is optimized by the residual energy of the nodes, distance to the neighbors, distance to the base station, node degree and node centrality. The route between the cluster head and the base station is identified by using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), it selects the optimal route based on the distance, residual energy and node degree. The performance measures of this proposed methodology are analyzed in terms of alive nodes, dead nodes, energy consumption and data packets received by the BS. The outputs of the proposed methodology are compared with traditional approaches LEACH, DEEC and compared with some existing methods FUCHAR, CRHS, BERA, CPSO, ALOC and FLION. For example, the alive nodes of the proposed methodology are 200 at 1500 iterations which is higher compared to the CRHS and BERA methods.

174 citations

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TL;DR: About 215 most important WSN clustering techniques are extracted, reviewed, categorized and classified based on clustering objectives and also the network properties such as mobility and heterogeneity, providing highly useful insights to the design of clustering Techniques in WSNs.

150 citations

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07 Apr 2020-Sensors
TL;DR: An IoT-based WSN framework as an application to smart agriculture comprising different design levels is proposed and it is proved that the proposed framework significantly enhanced the communication performance as well as the energy consumption and routing overheads for smart agriculture, as compared to other solutions.
Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have demonstrated research and developmental interests in numerous fields, like communication, agriculture, industry, smart health, monitoring, and surveillance. In the area of agriculture production, IoT-based WSN has been used to observe the yields condition and automate agriculture precision using various sensors. These sensors are deployed in the agricultural environment to improve production yields through intelligent farming decisions and obtain information regarding crops, plants, temperature measurement, humidity, and irrigation systems. However, sensors have limited resources concerning processing, energy, transmitting, and memory capabilities that can negatively impact agriculture production. Besides efficiency, the protection and security of these IoT-based agricultural sensors are also important from malicious adversaries. In this article, we proposed an IoT-based WSN framework as an application to smart agriculture comprising different design levels. Firstly, agricultural sensors capture relevant data and determine a set of cluster heads based on multi-criteria decision function. Additionally, the strength of the signals on the transmission links is measured while using signal to noise ratio (SNR) to achieve consistent and efficient data transmissions. Secondly, security is provided for data transmission from agricultural sensors towards base stations (BS) while using the recurrence of the linear congruential generator. The simulated results proved that the proposed framework significantly enhanced the communication performance as an average of 13.5% in the network throughput, 38.5% in the packets drop ratio, 13.5% in the network latency, 16% in the energy consumption, and 26% in the routing overheads for smart agriculture, as compared to other solutions.

144 citations


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  • ...The authors [43] proposed the particle swarm optimization-energy efficient-based cluster head selection (PSO-ECHS) protocol, which prolongs network lifetime and network stability....

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TL;DR: An improved cuckoo search-based energy balanced node clustering protocol which uses a novel objective function for uniform distribution of cluster heads is proposed which shows significant improvement over the state-of-art protocols.

128 citations

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04 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) as mentioned in this paper is a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster based station (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network.
Abstract: Wireless distributed microsensor systems will enable the reliable monitoring of a variety of environments for both civil and military applications. In this paper, we look at communication protocols, which can have significant impact on the overall energy dissipation of these networks. Based on our findings that the conventional protocols of direct transmission, minimum-transmission-energy, multi-hop routing, and static clustering may not be optimal for sensor networks, we propose LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster based station (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network. LEACH uses localized coordination to enable scalability and robustness for dynamic networks, and incorporates data fusion into the routing protocol to reduce the amount of information that must be transmitted to the base station. Simulations show the LEACH can achieve as much as a factor of 8 reduction in energy dissipation compared with conventional outing protocols. In addition, LEACH is able to distribute energy dissipation evenly throughout the sensors, doubling the useful system lifetime for the networks we simulated.

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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster based station (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network, is proposed.
Abstract: Wireless distributed microsensor systems will enable the reliable monitoring of a variety of environments for both civil and military applications. In this paper, we look at communication protocols, which can have signicant impact on the overall energy dissipation of these networks. Based on our ndings that the conventional protocols of direct transmission, minimum-transmission-energy, multihop routing, and static clustering may not be optimal for sensor networks, we propose LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster base stations (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network. LEACH uses localized coordination to enable scalability and robustness for dynamic networks, and incorporates data fusion into the routing protocol to reduce the amount of information that must be transmitted to the base station. Simulations show that LEACH can achieve as much as a factor of 8 reduction in energy dissipation compared with conventional routing protocols. In addition, LEACH is able to distribute energy dissipation evenly throughout the sensors, doubling the useful system lifetime for the networks we simulated.

11,412 citations

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TL;DR: This work develops and analyzes low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), a protocol architecture for microsensor networks that combines the ideas of energy-efficient cluster-based routing and media access together with application-specific data aggregation to achieve good performance in terms of system lifetime, latency, and application-perceived quality.
Abstract: Networking together hundreds or thousands of cheap microsensor nodes allows users to accurately monitor a remote environment by intelligently combining the data from the individual nodes. These networks require robust wireless communication protocols that are energy efficient and provide low latency. We develop and analyze low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), a protocol architecture for microsensor networks that combines the ideas of energy-efficient cluster-based routing and media access together with application-specific data aggregation to achieve good performance in terms of system lifetime, latency, and application-perceived quality. LEACH includes a new, distributed cluster formation technique that enables self-organization of large numbers of nodes, algorithms for adapting clusters and rotating cluster head positions to evenly distribute the energy load among all the nodes, and techniques to enable distributed signal processing to save communication resources. Our results show that LEACH can improve system lifetime by an order of magnitude compared with general-purpose multihop approaches.

10,296 citations