Balancing Energy Consumption in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="314732.fig.004a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/isrn/volume-2013/314732/figures/314732.fig.004a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>After <i>cluster heads</i> drain their batteries faster than other nodes, <i>cluster heads</i> roles change</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="314732.fig.004b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/isrn/volume-2013/314732/figures/314732.fig.004b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b><i>Cluster heads</i> change again after some time, and energy is balanced</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Battery drain: case of BLAC-b*.</table>

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Figure 4: Balancing Energy Consumption in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks 