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Mobile sink and fuzzy based relay node routing protocol for network lifetime enhancement in wireless sensor networks

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Wireless sensor network is a group of nodes combined with tiny sensors equipped with transceiver parts used for sensing, monitoring, and data collecting in various environments. It is not possible to support the battery support to the sensors while placed in an unmanned area. Hence, the sensor's energy should be vital, and it is very crucial. Combining the techniques of clustering and proper routing is one of the efficient schemes to save the energy of the sensor nodes. During the clustering process, cluster heads can be chosen with utmost care for load balancing. Along with cluster head selection, this proposed work also focussed on two major things. First, the appropriate relay node can be selected using the fuzzy inference system with sensor energy level as one input and the distance between the relay node and the cluster head node as another input. Secondly, the mobile sink collects the aggregated data from the relay node and sends it to the base station. On combining these two schemes, mobile sink and fuzzy based relay node routing Protocol is proposed. Simulation result shows that the proposed protocol has an improved number of alive nodes and a better network lifetime in terms of energy consumption compared with the existing schemes.

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Senthil Kumaran, R., Nagarajan, G. Mobile sink and fuzzy based relay node routing protocol for network lifetime enhancement in wireless sensor networks. Wireless Netw 28, 1963–1975 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-02960-8

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