Multi-Level Heterogeneous Energy Efficient Hybrid Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

In wireless sensor networks, maintaining the energy of the sensor nodes is the critical design issue. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are defined as the collection of hundreds or more sensor nodes deploy in a region to sense the nearby vicinity. The main constraint of wireless sensor networks is the limited battery of the sensor nodes. The battery of sensor nodes is not replaceable and cannot be recharged, so it is important to introduce the techniques to prolong the lifetime of the wireless sensor networks. Clustering is the most accepted optimizing scheme for improving the lifetime of the wireless sensor networks. In this paper Multi-level Heterogeneous Energy Efficient Hybrid Clustering Protocol (MHEEHCP) has been proposed in which hybrid clustering approach which is the combination of static and dynamic clustering is utilized for elongation of the lifetime of network. Simulation results shows that the MHEEHCP outperformance LEACH and SEEC in terms of FND and Network lifetime.