Overview of Cluster Based Routing Protocols in Static and Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is one of the hottest research areas now days. WSNs can be used to monitor environmental conditions like light, sound, temperature, pollution, humidity, wind speed and direction, pressure, and many more. Also WSNs are used in industrial process monitoring and control, machine health monitoring, traffic monitoring, space exploration, disaster management etc. Cluster based WSN provide much better support, functionality, advantages and results in ample variety of applications, because of this, many cluster based routing protocols have been developed for WSN. This paper focus on concise study of the clustering based routing protocols. In this paper, brief overview of the cluster based routing techniques for Static WSN where, the sensor nodes are fixed, i.e. not moveable, and for Mobile WSN, where the sensor nodes are fixed and/or mobile in nature, i.e. they can move from one location to another, is presented.