Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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On the lifetime of wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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Employing a novel two tiered network structure to extend the lifetime of WSNs
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
An efficient energy cluster-based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
Energy balanced scheme based on variable cell transmission range for wireless sensor networks
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
An unequal cluster-based routing protocol in wireless sensor networks
Wireless Networks
A routing protocol for balancing energy consumption in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
Minimizing energy consumption with probabilistic distance models in wireless sensor networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Cluster-based distributed face tracking in camera networks
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing - Special section on distributed camera networks: sensing, processing, communication, and implementation
Energy-efficient spatially-adaptive clustering and routing in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Energy balancing in coalition-based multi-hop wireless sensor networks
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Success guaranteed routing in almost Delaunay planar nets for wireless sensor communication
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Effect of multiple hops on network lifetime and energy consumption in a wireless sensor network
Proceedings of the International Conference & Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
Cluster size optimization in sensor networks with decentralized cluster-based protocols
Computer Communications
Optimal data gathering paths and energy balance mechanisms in wireless networks
DCOSS'10 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
On the lifetime of node-to-node communication in wireless ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor network via multihop clustering
NEW2AN'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking
An energy-balancing clustering approach for gradient-based routing in wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
Balancing energy dissipation in clustered wireless sensor networks
ISPA'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
APNOMS'07 Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific conference on Network Operations and Management Symposium: managing next generation networks and services
COCA: Constructing optimal clustering architecture to maximize sensor network lifetime
Computer Communications
Deployment guidelines for achieving maximum lifetime and avoiding energy holes in sensor network
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Avoiding Energy Holes to Maximize Network Lifetime in Gradient Sinking Sensor Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
UCOR: an unequally clustering-based hierarchical opportunistic routing protocol for WSNs
WASA'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
A Sink-Oriented Layered Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
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Organizing wireless sensor networks into clusters enables the efficient utilization of the limited energy resources of the deployed sensor nodes. However, the problem of unbalanced energy consumption exists, and it is tightly bound to the role and to the location of a particular node in the network. If the network is organized into heterogeneous clusters, where some more powerful nodes take on the cluster head role to control network operation, it is important to ensure that energy dissipation of these cluster head nodes is balanced. Oftentimes the network is organized into clusters of equal size, but such equal clustering results in an unequal load on the cluster head nodes. Instead, we propose an Unequal Clustering Size (UCS) model for network organization, which can lead to more uniform energy dissipation among the cluster head nodes, thus increasing network lifetime. Also, we expand this approach to homogeneous sensor networks and show that UCS can lead to more uniform energy dissipation in a homogeneous network as well.