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Cluster-based multi-hop routing is one of the proficient techniques to prolong the network lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this technique, a cluster head (CH) sends its data packet via other CHs to the sink. However, in most of such routing techniques, a CH selects a single path to forward the data to the sink which results in imbalance energy consumption of some of the CHs along the path and hence limits the network lifetime. In this paper, we propose a new distributed energy-aware multi-level routing algorithm (EMRA) to maximize the network lifetime. In the proposed algorithm, CHs are assigned various levels based on the distance between the CHs and the sink. Furthermore, a backbone network (BN) is constructed over these CHs rooted at the sink. We devise a simple and efficient technique through which each CH in the BN selects a few CHs as forwarding nodes keeping the load balancing among the CHs. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing ones in terms of network lifetime.
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Amgoth, T., Ghosh, N., Jana, P.K. (2014). Energy-Aware Multi-level Routing Algorithm for Two-Tier Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Natarajan, R. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04483-5_13
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