Abstract—A standard Wireless Sensor Network comprises of a huge number of sensor nodes with data processing and communication capabilities. The sensor nodes pass the gathered data using radio transmitter, to a sink either straightforwardly or through other nodes in a multi-hop approach. Wireless sensor network is a power consuming system, since nodes performs on restricted power batteries which decreases its lifetime. Well-organized energy routing protocol is extremely vital technique in wireless sensor networks since sensor nodes are exceedingly energy based. Therefore, numerous routing protocols for sensor networks have been developed, particularly routing protocols based on clusters protocols. The usage of cluster based routing has numerous advantages like reduced control messages, re-usability of bandwidth and most importantly better power control. The cluster heads, which form a leading set in the network, choose the topology and are in charge for its stability. In this paper, a Weighted Clustering Algorithm (WCA) was used in QoS Enhanced Base Station Controlled Dynamic Clustering Protocol (QBCDCP) which considers the ideal degree, transmission power, battery power and mobility of a mobile node. The simulation result shows that the proposed approach has more number of alive nodes than the existing technique.

Index Terms—Wireless sensor network, QBCDCP, Cluster Head Election, Weighted Clustering Algorithm (WCA), Energy efficiency

Cite: M Sheik Dawood, S Sadasivam, R Abdul Sikkandhar and G Athisha, "WCA FOR ENERGY SAVING CLUSTER HEAD ELECTION IN QOS ENHANCED BASE STATION CONTROLLED DYNAMIC CLUSTERING PROTOCOL," International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & Telecommunications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 83-94, October 2012.