A Compressive Family Based Efficient Trust Routing Protocol (C-FETRP) for Maximizing the Lifetime of WSN

WSN is deployed for the dissemination of various sensor nodes in a fixed topology to sense the environment with limited resources, and to communicate the sensed data with the base station through cluster head. WSN is one of the dynamic networks, which can perform several dynamic functions like change in cluster head, avoid redundant messages, resource reservation mechanism and resource cancellation mechanism. One of the major problems in the deployment of WSN is ‘terrain structure’. Due to irregular terrain structure, deployment of sensor nodes is random in nature and due to this random deployment; nodes are not properly organized in a distributed way. A Compressive Family-based Efficient Trust Routing Protocol is proposed by dividing the network into various clusters and then split up clusters into sub-clusters. Each sub-cluster is again separated into various families and each family is allocated with a family head. The performance of proposed approach is compared with similar protocols (GEED-M, EETRP, and FERP) developed for specific terrain structures like plateaus and military areas. The Compressive Family-based Efficient Trust Routing Protocol enhances the shelf life of the network by 69%, and reduces the energy consumption of the network by 30%.