An Energy Aware Dynamic Cluster Head Selection Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy efficiency in data collection and dissemination is a very important factor in wireless sensor networks. Therefore, minimizing energy consumption and maximizing network lifetime are the key factors for the design of wireless sensor network protocols. One of the energy conservation techniques is to select proper cluster head in a cluster. In this paper, a protocol has been proposed to select the sensor node as cluster head, in the sense that choosing the closest sensor node to low-energy nodes will result in lesser energy consumption and early death prevention of nodes. The simulation results have been shown that the proposed protocol could enhance the network lifetime.