Cluster-Based Hybrid Routing Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks

While deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the cluster heads need huge amount of energy according to the unbalanced routing of the Sensor nodes to the base station as the result, which has produced minimized network lifetime and unbalanced energy utilization. The proposed cluster-based hybrid routing technique (CHRT) contains the cluster head selection with effective energy utilization procedure which extends the network lifetime and enhanced packet routing technique is used to reduce the energy of the sensor node with the Euclidean distance metric, base station location identification and residual energy. The fitness function is used for selecting the cluster heads for enhancing the selection of the cluster head in efficient way. The modified fitness function has been introduced for relaying the remaining cluster heads through enhanced routing functionality. The simulation results of the proposed technique suggested that it enhances the network lifetime, improves the residual energy and coverage area as compared to the relevant methodologies.