Data-Based Energy Efficient Clustered Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensors Networks – Tabuk Flood Monitoring System Case Study

Abstract

Abstract-Energy efficiency has been considered as the most important issue in wireless sensor networks. As in many applications, wireless sensors are scattered in a wide harsh area, where the battery replacement or charging will be quite difficult and it is the most important challenge. Therefore, the design of energy saving mechanism becomes mandatory in most recent research. In this paper, a new energy efficient clustered routing protocol is proposed: the proposed protocol is based on analyzing the data collected from the sensors in a base-station. Based on this analysis the cluster head will be selected as the one with the most useful data. Then, a variable time slot is specified to each sensor to minimize the transmission of repetitive and un-useful data. The proposed protocol Data-Based Energy Efficient Clustered Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensors Networks (DCRP) was compared with the famous energy efficient LEACH protocol and also with one of the recent energy efficient routing protocols named Position Responsive Routing Protocol (PRRP). DCRP has been used in monitoring the floods in Tabuk area -Saudi Arabia. It shows comparatively better results.

Fuzzy Logic-based Data Controlled Wireless Sensor Network Routing Protocol for Flood Early Warning

“…Guesmi (2017) developed WSN for real time flash flood early warning in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Babiker et al (2017) built a wireless sensor network system to monitor flooding in the Tabuk River in Saudi Arabia. In order to prolong the network lifetime, a new routing protocol was proposed.…”

“…Position responsive routing protocol PRRP (Zaman & Abdullah, 2011) is another protocol that was designed to improve on the performance of LEACH by eliminating the use of broadcasting and advertisement in the setup phase thereby further elongating the network lifetime by reducing energy expended during this phase. But the DCRP (Data-Based Energy Efficient Clustered Routing Protocol), which is an improvement over PRRP, is of profound interest (Babiker et al, 2017). In addition to being position responsive using GPS, it also considers data sent by node and the residual energy to select the cluster head.…”