ETRUST: Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Trust-Based Clustering and Data Transmission

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as a transformative technology with diverse applications across industries, offering benefits such as easy deployment, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced mobility compared to wired networks. This paper delves into the architecture, categories, and operational intricacies of WSNs, focusing on structured and unstructured networks' deployment methods and characteristics. It also addresses the resource constraints inherent in WSNs, including low energy, storage, and processing capacities, which necessitate specialized optimization techniques. The paper proposes a trust based approach for efficient data collection and transmission operation in WSN. The proposed protocol is  compared with existing protocol where it demonstrate significant improvements in network stability, and energy efficiency. The proposed protocols showcase enhanced performance, indicating their potential to advance wireless communication systems.