Low Energy and Location Based Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor network (WSN) represents a very important research that targets a very large number of possible applications in healthcare, smart cities, environmental monitoring, military, industrial automation and recently in smart grids. It consists of three main components: a large number of nodes, gateways and software. WSN workload needs an unlimited lifetime energy and it doesn't depend on a limit energy usage while sensor nodes are supplied by batteries or supercapacitors with limited energy. Particular algorithms must be employed so that energy consumption is reduced. In this paper, clustering protocols are investigated and a new approach is proposed to increase the lifetime of the wireless sensor network. Simulation results show that its performance is better in terms of prolonging the lifetime of the network and increasing the number of data packets received by the Base Station (BS).