Performance Evaluation of Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of sensor nodes having limited amount of battery power. Sensor nodes sense the data and transmit this data to base station that needs high energy consumption. Numerous routing protocols have been proposed in this regard getting energy efficiency in heterogeneous situations. Efficiency of WSNs declines as changing the heterogeneous parameters of sensor nodes. In this paper, performance of various Distributed Energy- Efficient Clustering based protocols like DDEEC, EDEEC, TDEEC and TADEEC under various scenarios. Performance of these protocols is observed based on stability period, network life time and throughput. MATLAB simulator tool is used for this experiment scenario. TADEEC performs better than TDEEC and EDEEC in all scenarios. TDEEC performs better than EDEEC in terms of stability period and network lifetime. EDEEC performs better than DDEEC in all parameters under all scenarios. Performance of TADEEC is best among all these protocols for each parameter in all scenarios