A Review on Hierarchical Unequal Clustering Based Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are drawing attention of various researchers in the area of wireless sensing technology. The one of the major constraint on WSNs is the limited battery resources. Due to this, the routing among sensor nodes plays a vital role in reducing the energy consumption of nodes. Clustering not only provides scalability to the network, but it also balances the energy consumption among nodes according to their roles in the cluster. Equal clustering creates the problem of Hot-Spot among those nodes that have to relay the data from the farther clusters. In this paper we have studied various routing protocols which follow unequal clustering. It is found after studying these protocols that unequal clustering help tremendously in saving the energy and avoids the problem of Hot-Spot.