Energy Efficient Cluster Head Selection In Adhoc On Demand Multipath Distance Vector Routing Protocol

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) bringing in new applications and needs non -conventional standard for protocol design due to various challenges. While selecting a protocol for WSN formulating an energy efficient protocol is the biggest challenge. On-Demand routing protocols operates on the idea of generating routes as and when needed between a source and destination node pair in a network topology. Traditi onal AOMDV Protocol provides multiple routes but did not consider energy constraint. To overcome this challenge clustering based AOMDV protocol is proposed. Energy based multipath routing LEACH by introducing the clustering mechanism is tried. But in LEACH Protocol cluster head selection mechanism is random and not dependent on the size of the cluster. A new strategy is proposed which selects the cluster head based on residual energy. It selects the cluster head for Clustering induced AOMDV based on Midpoint K Means Algorithm by identifying the centroids of the cluster. The proposed methodology outperforms other traditional protocol algorithms such as LEACH and Energy Efficient Clustering Formation in terms of various parameters such as Energy Consumption distribution of cluster head in addition to providing multipath