Distributed and Hierarchical Clustering Techniques Comparison in Wireless Camera Sensor Networks

Most of the applications of modern-day communication, viz., military navigation, home automations, agricultural land security, and many more are totally dependent upon wireless sensor industry. Therefore, a very important task is to establish and operate the wireless sensor networks in such a way that the lifeline of the network is long and it should not be very power consuming or non-reliable. Most of the researchers have shifted their goal post if they are working in sensor-based field to optimize the energy, power, and life span with reliability consideration of sensor-based networks (camera-based or non-camera-based). So, in this paper, the primary focus will be to review all those techniques which can optimize the power consumptions, energy, and overall improvement in lifeline of the network. Since, clustering is cast-off for making the networks more scalable, stable, efficient, reliable, and energy efficient. This helps in minimizing the effective cost of implementation and maintenance of the networks also. The paper will overview wireless sensor networks at first, then the issues that impact the design of any type of wireless sensor networks (camera/ad hoc/nonvisual). After the introduction of the mentioned terms, the next part provides formidable comparison between different clustering techniques used for the implementation of different kinds of wireless networks. The conclusion covers the comparison of different clustering techniques leading to the need of cooperative communication.