Cluster-Based WSN Routing Protocol for Smart Buildings

The design issues of resource constrained sensor network include the use of efficient routing protocol which have significant impact on the energy dissipation of the network. Since the energy saving plays the main challenge in the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks, we proposed the energy efficient routing protocol which is an integration of clustering and routing in sensor network. In our approach, we also performed network coding during the data routing in order to achieve the additional power saving in the cluster head nodes. Simulation results are provided to show the efficacy of the proposed method in terms of the throughput and end-to-end delay. In addition, the results show significant improvement of proposed method in the network lifetime over other technique.