Energy-Efficient Clustering Strategies for IoT Applications using Z-Sep Approach

Connecting different items and devices over the internet is a novel and fascinating idea in wireless communication. Despite the widespread use of WSNs, energy usage still remains a challenge. Energy management is vital to ensuring an efficient and economical deployment of WSNs. This study presents a life prolonging clustering mechanism entitled Regional Stable Election Protocol (R-SEP) for WSNs which aims at energy management as a major concern. An evaluation of the R-SEP was conducted and the approach greatly enhances energy efficiency, network lifetime, and throughput. An analysis of results was conducted against the LEACH and Z-SEP protocols. R-SEP shows an improvement in many aspects when energy efficiency and performance of WSNs is concerned.