Lie Commutator Based Energy Efficient Data Gathering Protocol in WSN for Industrial Automation

Recent advancements in industrial automation require a dynamic, heterogeneous and fault-tolerant environment established with electro-mechanical and embedded systems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) helps to form a device network and enable connections to share and store information. Sensor nodes in WSNs are battery-operated, which depletes energy during data transmission, so energy is the major constraint for prolonging the lifetime of the WSN in the industry. This paper introduces a Lie commutator-based Routing (LCR) protocol for energy-efficient data transmission. Initially, LCR clusters the network using K-Medoids with optimum K value and chooses the Cluster Head (CH) based on three parameters: distance to base station (BS), distance to the cluster center and remnant energy. Finally, in the routing phase, Lie algebra of upper triangular matrix is exploited for inter-cluster communication to reach the BS. The simulation results indicate the proposed approach prevails over the other protocols in both homogeneous and heterogeneous network.