Research Article

Balancing Energy Consumption in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Simulation parameter.

Parameter Value

Propagation Freespace
mac 802.15.4 CSMA-CA

CC2420 idle 0.77 mW
CC2420 Rx 35.46 mW
CC2420 Tx 31.32 mW
CC2420 data rate 250 kbit/s
GPRS idle 6.4 mW
GPRS Rx/Tx 1.25 W
GPRS Tx data rate 26.8 kbit/s
Battery capacity 32 mWh
Hello length 48 bit + 24 bit/neighbor