Energy Efficient Dynamic Sink Multi Level Heterogeneous Extended Distributed Clustering Routing for Scalable WSN: ML-HEDEEC

The size of the wireless sensor network (WSN) is extending continually with use of IOT networks. The main difficulty for design wide area WSN is to maintain the higher stability period and energy efficiency (EE) for the routing protocols. The creation of clustering-based routing protocols was applied to the optimization of overall network energy. But, traditional clustering methods were unable to produce improved node heterogeneity, and extended network lifetime. Distributed clustering-based routing protocols are specially designed for enhancing the EE of the networks. In addition, EE can be improved by enhancing the heterogeneity of the node distribution. This paper aims to design the extended distributed clustering-based EE routing protocol. The heterogeneity of nodes is improved by introducing the additional intermediate advanced nodes layer in the network. Therefore, paper proposed to design the Multi-Level Heterogynous EDEEC rousing protocol called ML-HEDEEC by adapting optimum energy enhancing parameters. The notes are divided to normal, advance, advance-interdicted and supper nodes based on the energy allocated to them. The probability of nodes is modified for better clustering and cluster head election by introducing additional energy enhancement parameter. In addition, it is proposed to automatically adopt the network initial energy based on the scaling of network dimensions. This may lead to enhance EE of the network and may improve stability period. Finally, the results are evaluated for a case of WSN routing under the dynamic sink locations. Performance is compared for various distributed clustering protocols and other state of art protocols viz. LEACH, SEP, zonal- SEP, DEC considering the network scaling. Various performances of the network stability, packets sent to base station, and lifetime,.are defined for result evaluation. The network dimensions are scaled up to four times and proposed protocol is tested under scaling consideration. In addition, sink locations are also varied for dynamic sink locations performance evaluation. Overall paper efficiently designed and test heterogeneous improved routing protocol with extended lifetime and stability.