Comparative Analysis of Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The clustering based protocols are the best for the heterogeneous wireless sensor networks because they perform the work on divide and conquer rule. In this study, the mainly focus is on the cluster head selection using tabu search in energy efficient clustering protocol. Due to limited energy in sensor nodes, the networkis not stable. For this, many protocols has been proposed so far to improve the energy efficiency .This paper presents the comparative analysis of REAC-IN protocol with Tabu based REAC-IN protocol in terms of alive nodes, energy variance and data received to the sink in bytes. The simulation results show that tabu based REAC-IN protocol performs better instead of REAC-IN protocol