An Experimental Investigation of Power Limitation Based on a Signal Strength in Clustering Protocol Wireless Sensor Network

For decades, one of the most popular ideas in wireless communication literature is the idea about merging between wireless communication and sensor device, which known as a wireless sensor network. A wireless sensor network node is a small node with many limitations like a resource, range, energy, and many others. Transmission power control is one method for efficiency energy with limited power transmission. Clustering protocol is one rule on protocol wireless sensor network for grouping data from adjacent nodes for energy efficient. In this study, the researcher combines transmission power control with the clustering protocol for getting more efficient on energy consumption on the sensor node. From our simulation result, this method proven gets more saving energy. Wasteful energy still occurs mainly at the head of the cluster, not the use of energy in transmission but the use of energy in calculations especially to calculate the received signal stress indicator as to the main factor limiting power. But it matters more than without use limitation power control in conventional clustering protocol.