A survey on self-organized cluster-based wireless sensor network

Abstract

Study on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been expended enormously in recent years. Sensor nodes are deployed in harsh environment which is operated autonomously. Network formation of WSNs are of two types, namely flat network and cluster-based network. Cluster-based network has various advantages as compare to flat network such as, efficient topology management, energy efficiency, minimized delay, better network communication, etc. Another important feature of cluster-based network is self-organized network. Self-organized enables new nodes joining to increase the coverage of the network and existing nodes leaving the network as node have limited energy. In recent years the demand of self-organized network is tremendously increasing to overcome the problem of node joining and leaving which maintain the smooth data communication. Thus, this survey addresses latest research works regarding self-organized cluster-based network. Moreover, a unique performance matrix is also investigated in this article to measure the algorithms. Finally, open research issues are highlighted for self-organized clustering schemes that might be future line of action.