Trust and Bio-Inspired-Based Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Trust-based secure clustering in WSN-based intelligent transportation systems

“…Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a relatively recent technology which has found many applications, e.g military, healthcare, agriculture, smart buildings, and ITS Abdelwahab et al [2017a], Elhoseny et al [2015]. WSN is usually medium to large networks that use cheap wireless sensor nodes which has the capabilities to sense, process, and distribute data collected from the environment using a collaborative model among nodes Hassanien [2014] andFouad et al [2015].…”

“…In ITS environment, clustering would help in addressing the high communication overhead problem. This is because of the following reasons: clustering only allows a Cluster Head (CH) to be involved in the communication Abdelwahab et al [2017b] and it helps to provide: fault tolerance in a given system, load balanced system, reduced delay and increased connectivity, as well as reduced power consumption (Abdelwahab et al [2017b] ). This leads to maximizing network lifetime (i.e.…”