Reliable and energy efficient cluster-based and event-driven routing scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Traditionally, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are deployed for monitoring applications based on low rate data collection. Recent research shows that cluster-based and event-driven routing (such as EMRP [1], ARPEES [2], HPEQ [3] and OEDSR [4]) that groups sensor nodes into one cluster in order to efficiently relay the sensed data to the Base Station (BS) has many advantages in term of energy efficiency and load balance. We present in this paper a new cluster-based and event-driven routing algorithm (called Reliable and Energy-efficient Cluster-based and Event-driven Routing algorithm-RECER). Our new scheme was implemented using OMNet++ and can achieves better energy consumption, better load balance, network lifetime and rate delivery compared to other schemes.