期刊名称：The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1683-3198
出版年度：2010
卷号：7
期号：3
出版社：Zarqa Private University
摘要：Research on Wireless Sensor Networks has often assumed homogeneous nodes. In reality, homogeneous nodes have different capabilities like different levels of initial energy and drain rate. This leads to the research on heterogeneous networks where two or more types of nodes are considered within the network and the more powerful sensor nodes act as cluster heads. In this paper, we have analyzed a heterogeneous network with three types of nodes having different initial energy levels. A single hop clustering topology has been assumed and analyzed the network performance in terms of lifetime. Simulation results show that the network lifetime is much better in proposed protocol than the existing protocols
