Open AccessECHA: A Novel Energy Efficient Cluster Head Election Algorithm to Provide Energy-Aware Routing in WSN
Author(s) -
V. Nivedhitha,
A. Gopi Saminathan,
P. Thirumurugan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d8843.118419
Subject(s) - wireless sensor network , computer science , computer network , routing protocol , cluster analysis , routing (electronic design automation) , efficient energy use , energy (signal processing) , distributed computing , transfer (computing) , real time computing , engineering , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , electrical engineering , parallel computing
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is composed of several low powered, tiny and cheap sensors deployed over a geographical area to monitor the environment. WSN can be set out in various real time applications like security and surveillance, healthcare monitoring, smart grids, smart buildings, environmental monitoring and industrial applications etc. A WSN includes numerous spatially dispersed sensor nodes or motes that sense the environment, transfer them to a computing device through hoping and processes them to result in useful information. Since motes are low-powered and operate on limited energy resource, prolong usage of same nodes to transfer data may lead to network failure. Clustering provides an efficient technique to increase the longevity of network by efficiently using the residual energy in the motes. We propose a reasonable energy aware routing protocol that implements energy efficient cluster formation through Energy efficient Custer Head Election (ECHA) algorithm that increases the network performance to a greater extent.