Comparison and Performance Analysis of Dynamic and Static Clustering Based Routing Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks have created new opportunities across the spectrum of human efforts including engineering design, forest fire tracking, and battlefield surveillance. Wireless Sensor Network is a group of sensor nodes that comprised of sensing, computing, and communication elements that gives an administrator the ability to observe and react to events and phenomena in a specified environment. Basically, sensor network have mainly two types of applications: monitoring and tracking. In monitoring, air pollution monitoring, traffic monitoring etc and in tracking, animal tracking in habitat consisted. When the sensor nodes are deployed to develop a wireless sensor network there must be routing of data to communicate with other nodes and conserve the battery power and increase the network lifetime. On the basis of network structure, Routing protocols are divided into three parts: flat, hierarchical and location aware. Hierarchical clustering based routing scheme can be further divided into parts: Dynamic and static. In Dynamic Clustering based routing scheme the cluster formed dynamically across the network lifetime and in static, once the cluster is formed it remain same throughout network lifetime. In this paper, the performance of Dynamic and static routing scheme is checked on the basis of various node distribution schemes like Random node distribution, Poisson distribution and Uniform distribution.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Dynamic and Static Clustering Based Routing Scheme, Network-lifetime, Node distribution.