Exploring the Impact of Node Velocity on Communication Overhead and Energy Consumption in WSNs Using Fuzzy Clustering

Clustering, an unsupervised machine learning technique with numerous practical applications, has received a great deal of research attention. Along with deterministic and probabilistic approaches, fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) is commonly employed. Over time, improvements to the FCM approach have been implemented to improve clustering efficiency. In this paper, we perform the results of communication overhead, energy consumption, and link distance travel in WSN with different velocities for the clustering-based protocol. In this performance, we are considering the number of nodes in the networks as 100, 175, and 200, having considered the start node as five using fuzzy clustering methodology in the unsupervised ML technique. In the communication overhead result analysis, we observed that the communication overhead increases as the nodes velocity increases, and another case of energy consumption also increases with the rising trend as node velocity increases. The results presented in this paper have been simulated using the Matlab R2020a tool.