Next century challenges: mobile networking for “Smart Dust”
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wireless integrated network sensors
Communications of the ACM
Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks
Wireless Networks
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
TEEN: ARouting Protocol for Enhanced Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks
IPDPS '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
Avoiding Energy Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks with Nonuniform Node Distribution
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
HPCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
A centralized energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
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To achieve efficiency in prolonging the lifetime of sensor networks many schemes have been proposed. Among these schemes, a clustering protocol is an efficient method that prolongs the lifetime of a network. However, in applying this method, some nodes consume energy unnecessarily because of an environment in which the collected data of the sensor nodes easily overlap. In this paper we propose a clustering method which reduces unnecessary data transmission among nodes by excluding the duplication of data. Our method alleviates the problem where nearby nodes collect the same data from adjacent areas by electing all nodes that form a cluster in consideration of the sensing coverage of the nodes. Also, it introduces relay nodes, also called repeaters, which help to hop the data transmission along to cluster head nodes in order to cope with energy-hole and link failure problems. This method prevents data loss caused by link failure problem and thus the data is collected reliably. According to the results of the performance analysis, our method reduces the energy consumption, increases the transmission efficiency, and prolongs network lifetime when compared to the existing clustering methods.