@inproceedings{1324f3606b1a4622933bf03ac687642e,
title = "Improving on the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks",
abstract = "The application of wireless sensor networks is gradually gaining popularity in ubiquitous computing. They are used for military surveillance, home automation and monitoring, underwater surveillance, wearable sensor and many others. With their way of deployment and use, these tiny motes are mostly vulnerable to attacks and their mode of transfer of data depletes battery power leaving motes dead after a short while. In this paper an algorithm that can be used to minimize the energy consumed by sensor nodes communicating over multihop links is proposed. The algorithm employs unequal clustering technique taking into consideration the distance of the motes from the base station. Our algorithm considers a base station with sparsely distributed nodes that may not all receive adequate signal strength from the base station. Intuitive performance analysis of the proposed algorithm was done in comparison with EEUC and EAUCF considering their energy metrics and clustering techniques. From the preliminary results obtain, our algorithm performs better than the others and hence more stable and energy efficient clustering algorithm.",
keywords = "Competition Radius, Residual Energy, Unequal Clustering, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), multihop, singlehop",
author = "Felicia Engmann and Abdulai, {Jamal Deen} and Azasoo, {Julius Quarshie}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015 ; Conference date: 22-06-2015 Through 25-06-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1109/ICCSA.2015.18",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "87--91",
editor = "Sanjay Misra and Apduhan, {Bernady O.} and Gavrilova, {Marina L.} and D. Taniar and Osvaldo Gervasi and Beniamino Murgante",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015",
}