A new cluster head based dynamic base station positioning for wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor networks, besides the way and mode the nodes are communicating each other, the location of the base stations has an important effect on the energy efficiency and longevity of the network and as a result the increase of the number of packages. A new dynamic base station positioning algorithm, which incorporates the location as well as the energy of the cluster heads within the network, has been proposed in this study and the performance of this algorithm was investigated in detail on clustering algorithms such as K-means and K-medoid as well as the HEED hierarchical protocol by using various parameters of wireless sensor networks. As a result of the simulation, the lifetime performance of the network has been increased up to 124.2 %, the number of packages reached the base station has been increased up to of 277.52 % via the utilization of dynamic base station in comparison to fixed base station positioning.