A Performance Assessment of Power-Efficient Variants of Distributed Energy-Efficient Clustering Protocols in WSN

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have enabled an improved awareness in a range of purposes like battlefield surveillance, disaster management, industrial process monitoring and control, machine health monitoring, and medical applications. Accordingly, great numbers of sensor nodes (SNs) are arranged for usages that can function as an individual. Because of minute power of batteries in WSNs, proficient exploitation of this power is a significant aspect. Clustering is a capable method to expand the lifespan of WSNs by diminishing the power utilization. In the research work, the authors have compared resourceful power consumption protocols using different variants of distributed energy-efficient clustering (DEEC), namely developed DEEC (DDEEC), enhanced DEEC (EDEEC), and threshold DEEC (TDEEC). The simulation results demonstrate that out of three variants of DEEC, TDEEC performs better than other two protocols in respect of stability and WSN lifespan.