A survey on clustering algorithms for energy efficiency in wireless sensor network

In current scenario wireless sensor networks can be used in several areas like disaster management, intelligence surveillance and border security and so on. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are recognized as crucial and critical way to facilitate computing environment in effective and efficient manner for numerous applications. The most considerable constraint in wireless sensor network is limited energy. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play vital role in computing environment due to its energy saving attributes. In such applications, a collection of sensor nodes are required which are unattended and work independently. Clustering is a significant technique which is applied in sensor networks to achieve better utilization of nodes. It is also helpful to get better load distribution in network. In this paper, we survey and discuss various dimensions and approaches of some broadly discovered algorithms for clustering. This paper also presents a comparative study of various clustering algorithms and discussion about the potential research areas and the challenges of clustering in WSNs.