Maximization of WSN Based IoT Systems Lifetime by Minimized Intra-cluster Transmission Distance Clustering Protocol

Abstract

Interney of Things (IoT) enabled by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the principal idea behind target tracking, environment survelance, and patients monitoring systems in which human attentions are very crucial for round the clock. Since the sensor nodes that constitute the IoT is power constrained, it is suffering energy related problems which further badly affect the lifetime of the core sensor network. A well-knows topology management and routing scheme called Clustering is widely used for WSNs in maximizing the network lifetime due to its intrinsic characteristics. Clustering solves the energy constrained issues of WSN by providing a local infrastructure like arrangement to manage the network and resources in suitable manner. Various clustering approaches have been proposed so far by scientific community to address energy issues of WSN. But these existing approaches fail to provide required clustering output to improve lifetime by balancing the energy consumption in efficient manner. In this work, we propose a Minimized Intra-cluster Transmission Distance Clustering Protocol (MITDCP) to improve lifetime of WSN by innovatively clustering and intelligently placing the Base Station (BS). Innovative clustering involves a FCM (Fuzzy C Means) with Cluster Balancing algorithm to create balanced clusters. Then the proposed work makes use of back off timer weighted with residual energy to select and rotate Cluster Head (CH). Simulations show that our proposed work has achieved significant improvement in lifetime of WSN beneath the IoT systems when compared with Improved Energy Efficiency Clustering Protocol (IEECP).