Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles
Energy Optimization with Multi-level Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Energy Optimization with Multi-level Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks"
by Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid, Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah, M. Hossein Fotouhi Ghazvini and Maryam Vahabi
in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2007. WOCN '07, 2-4 July 2007

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

"Energy Conserving Architectures and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks"
by Frank Comeau, William Robertson, Shyamala C. Sivakumar, and William J. Phillips
in the Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science 4-7 Jan 2006Wireless sensor network is a distributed event-based system that differs from traditional communication network. Transporting information in an energy efficient manner Is critical in operating this network for a long period of time. An optimum data dissemination strategy and communication protocols that minimize the use of energy can significantly prolong the lifetime of a sensor network. Hierarchical routing protocols are actively studied in terms of the energy usage and packet latency. Clustering technique in hierarchical protocol can significantly reduce energy consumption in a network. In this paper, we present a multi-level clustering algorithm designed to reduce network energy consumption in wireless sensor networks.