On determining cluster size of randomly deployed heterogeneous WSNs
Author
Sevgi, C.
Koçyiğit, A.
Date
2008Source Title
IEEE Communications Letters
Print ISSN
1089-7798
Electronic ISSN
1558-2558
Publisher
IEEE
Volume
12
Issue
4
Pages
232 - 234
Language
English
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Abstract
Clustering is an efficient method to solve scalability
problems and energy consumption challenges. For this reason it
is widely exploited in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications.
It is very critical to determine the number of required
clusterheads and thus the overall cost of WSNs while satisfying
the desired level of coverage. Our objective is to study cluster
size, i.e., how much a clusterhead together with sensors can cover
a region when all the devices in a WSN are deployed randomly.
Therefore, it is possible to compute the required number of nodes
of each type for given network parameters.